Gist addressing the question to how to display an unknown number of cross-referenceable tables from Twitter/Mastodon.

demo.qmd

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Suppose, in a #QuartoPub document, using #rStats I have a list of length G, each item in this list is a flextable - I need to use flextable as opposed to kable, to allow for output to docx.
G is unknown apriori, but will be at least 1. 

Is there any way to create a sequence of tables with associated labels and captions that could be worked out dynamically/parsed? 
Manually, this can be done really easily (creating new labels etc) and knowing when to stop, but is there a way of automating this?

Source: https://mastodon.ie/@DToher/109915736491084825
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format: html
---

```{r}
#| include: false
library(palmerpenguins)
library(gt)
library(dplyr)
```

Below are tables of the first six rows of the Palmer penguins dataset by species:

```{r}
#| output: asis
#| echo: false
cat(sprintf("- `%s` (@tbl-%s)", levels(penguins[["species"]]), levels(penguins[["species"]])), sep = "\n")
```

```{r}
#| echo: false
#| output: asis
for (ispecies in levels(penguins[["species"]])) {
  tab <- penguins |>
    filter(species %in% ispecies) |>
    select(-species) |>
    head() |>
    gt() |>
    tab_header(title = ispecies)

  cat(sep = "\n", knitr::knit_child(quiet = TRUE, text = c(
    "```{r}",
    "#| echo: false",
    sprintf("#| tbl-cap: %s", ispecies),
    sprintf("#| label: tbl-%s", ispecies),
    "tab",
    "```"
  )))
}
```

Perfect, works for flextable as well as gt, so also can be compiled to word (for the cases when I really need multiple formats of outputs).