Cross referencing gt table when knitting to PDF in Markdown

[siganna]

Hi, I am writing a thesis in Bookdown and knitting it to PDF. Is there any way to cross reference gt table? I tried using tab_caption() but it doesn't work. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong or if there is a workaround this problem.

With Thanks
Anna

[technocrat]

There's a thread from a few years ago that is still relevant.

I prefer to work either in HTML or pdf, depending on the destination requirements, without mixing the two. Here's an example of what's possible using xtable to output.

which is produced with

data(tli)
fm1sc <- aov(tlimth ~ sex + ethnicty + grade, data = tli)
fm1sc.table <- xtable(fm1sc,
  caption = c("ANOVA Model with Predictors Sex, Ethnicity, and Grade",
    "ANOVA: Sex, Ethnicity, Grade"),
  label = "TAAS")
print(fm1sc.table, comment = FALSE)