Erroneous indentation in titles in text or markdown output

[ryancbriggs]

I like to save tables of results in separate scripts and then later import them into the documents I'm writing. To make cross-referencing work, I will have a title argument such as "title = test \\label{tab:stud_reg}". This used to work. I wish I knew when, but at some point this broke and the reason it broke seems to be that modelsummary is adding 5 spaces before the titles in tables saved as txt or md.

This reproduces the problem:

library(modelsummary)
mod <- lm(speed ~ dist, data = cars)
modelsummary(mod,
             title = "test",
             output = "test.txt")

The first line of test.txt is 5 spaces followed by "Table: test". If I save the output as .md then the first line again is 5 spaces followed by "Table: test". In a markdown file, which I would typically use, the titles are then read as code blocks and this breaks the \label{} portion of the title. It also renders the title like a code block instead of a title.

One other person that I mentioned this to has reproduced it on their machine.

I think this is incorrect behaviour and that the indentation should not be there.

sessionInfo() output
R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Ventura 13.5.2

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib; LAPACK version 3.11.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: America/Toronto
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] modelsummary_1.4.2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] httr_1.4.7 svglite_2.1.1 cli_3.6.1
[4] knitr_1.44 rlang_1.1.1 xfun_0.40
[7] stringi_1.7.12 generics_0.1.3 glue_1.6.2
[10] backports_1.4.1 colorspace_2.1-0 performance_0.10.5
[13] htmltools_0.5.6 parameters_0.21.2 datawizard_0.9.0
[16] scales_1.2.1 rmarkdown_2.25 evaluate_0.21
[19] munsell_0.5.0 kableExtra_1.3.4 fastmap_1.1.1
[22] lifecycle_1.0.3 stringr_1.5.0 insight_0.19.5
[25] compiler_4.3.1 rvest_1.0.3 rstudioapi_0.15.0
[28] systemfonts_1.0.4 digest_0.6.33 viridisLite_0.4.2
[31] R6_2.5.1 magrittr_2.0.3 checkmate_2.2.0
[34] webshot_0.5.5 tools_4.3.1 bayestestR_0.13.1
[37] tables_0.9.17 xml2_1.3.5

[vincentarelbundock]

should be resolved in version 1.4.2.9006 on Github. (You can thank United Airlines and their flight delays for this quick fix)

[ryancbriggs]

Resolved.
That's got to be some record on response time. safe travels!