Spicy table engine

Index page for the ASCII rendering engine that produces every spicy console table (freq(), cross_tab(), the table_*() family, and the association-measure printers). The engine supports Unicode line drawing, ANSI colours via crayon (with monochrome fallback), automatic colour-aware width detection, configurable integer padding (0L / 2L / 4L), per-column alignment, and horizontal panelling for tables wider than the console.

User-facing entry points

• freq() – one-way frequency tables

• cross_tab() – two-way cross-tabulations

• table_categorical(), table_continuous(), table_continuous_lm() – multi-variable summary tables

Rendering primitives (internal API)

• spicy_print_table() – user-facing wrapper that adds title, note, table-type-aware alignment defaults, and panelling.

• build_ascii_table() – the underlying string renderer.

See also

spicy for the full package overview, including the API stability tiers and the classed-condition taxonomy.