Rmardown: Add horizontal scrollbar to avoid truncated output

Question

I am trying to print a large table in Rmarkdown and for some reason the output is split up which makes it hard to read.

I would like to add an horizontal scrollbar so it doesn't split. I managed to do it for the vertical axis, but not for the horizontal one.

Here is a sample of code:

---
title: "Test"
output: html_document
---

```{css, echo=FALSE}
.main-container {
    max-width: 800px !important;
}

pre {
  max-height: 800px !important;
  overflow-y: auto !important;
  overflow-x: scroll !important;
}
```

```{r}
mdl <- lm(data = iris, Petal.Width ~ Sepal.Length*Sepal.Width*Petal.Length*Species)
summary(mdl)
```

This is how the output looks like:

As you can see, the horizontal scroll bar shows-up but the output is still split-up. I tried with both overflow-x: scroll !important; and max-width: 500px !important; without success.

The problem persists even if I set the .main-container CSS to max-width: 1200px !important; so that there should in principle be enough space for the model to print without splitting-up.

This is what I'm looking for:

Update
As suggested by @Rorschach, I have added the options(width = 160) to the script. This solves the issue in the second case, that is, when the .main-container CSS max-width is large enough (e.g. 800px):

However, if the max-width is not large enough (e.g. 600px) the print is still messed-up:

---
title: "Test"
output: html_document
---

```{css, echo=FALSE}
.main-container {
    max-width: 600px !important;
}

pre {
  max-height: 800px !important;
  overflow-y: auto !important;
  overflow-x: scroll !important;
}
```

```{r setup}
options(width = 160)
```

```{r}
mdl <- lm(data = iris, Petal.Width ~ Sepal.Length*Sepal.Width*Petal.Length*Species)
summary(mdl)
```

user_4552295 · Answer

Not an css expert but the following seems to do the trick:

---
title: "Test"
output: html_document
---

```{css, echo=FALSE}
.main-container {
    max-width: 600px !important;
}

pre {
  max-height: 800px !important;
  overflow-y: auto !important;
  overflow-x: scroll !important;
}
pre code {
  white-space: pre
}
```

```{r}
options(width=160)
mdl <- lm(data = iris, Petal.Width ~ Sepal.Length*Sepal.Width*Petal.Length*Species)
summary(mdl)
```

Rmardown: Add horizontal scrollbar to avoid truncated output

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