Table references work when rendering to bookdown::html_document2, but not blogdown::html_page

[joshuaborn]

Describe the bug
Table references work when a huxtable is in an R Markdown document rendered to output bookdown::html_document2, but not when a huxtable is in a document rendered to output blogdown::html_page.

Minimal Reproducible Example
See https://github.com/joshuaborn/minimal-example. Table numbering and references work for the huxtables when bookdown-article.Rmd is rendered, but not when blogdown-article.Rmd is rendered. Table numbering and references work for the kable versions of tables in both documents. Manually calling set_label has no effect.

Expected behavior
huxtables should be labeled, and references to them should work. The documentation for blogdown::html_page states that it "is a simple wrapper of bookdown::html_document2() with different default arguments," so if table references work with bookdown::html_document2, they should work with with blogdown::html_page.

System details
I am using the latest versions of R and relevant packages.

> xfun::session_info('huxtable')
R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22000), RStudio 2022.2.1.461

Locale:
  LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
  LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
  LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

Package version:
  assertthat_0.2.1 cachem_1.0.6     cli_3.3.0        commonmark_1.8.0 ellipsis_0.3.2  
  fastmap_1.1.0    generics_0.1.2   glue_1.6.2       graphics_4.2.0   grDevices_4.2.0 
  huxtable_5.4.0   magrittr_2.0.3   memoise_2.0.1    methods_4.2.0    purrr_0.3.4     
  R6_2.5.1         rlang_1.0.2      stats_4.2.0      stringi_1.7.6    stringr_1.4.0   
  tidyselect_1.1.2 tools_4.2.0      utils_4.2.0      vctrs_0.4.1      xml2_1.3.3

> packageVersion('bookdown')
[1] ‘0.26’
> packageVersion('blogdown')
[1] ‘1.9’
> packageVersion('knitr')
[1] ‘1.39’
> packageVersion('RMarkdown')
[1] ‘2.14’

Stack Overflow issue
Note: This began as a question on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72045792/why-is-table-numbering-not-working-with-blogdownhtml-page-but-working-with-bo

[hughjonesd]

Thanks for this. Could you check if setting options(huxtable.bookdown = TRUE) works? I'm also about to push a fix to master, please test it using remotes::install_github("hughjonesd/huxtable")

[joshuaborn]

I verified just now that the table references in a blogdown page work with options(huxtable.bookdown = TRUE) with v5.4.0 of huxtable, and independently without options(huxtable.bookdown = TRUE) using the HEAD of this repo.

Thanks for your prompt attention, and more importantly, thanks for all your work on huxtable!