Introducing the gt package

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gt builds HTML/RTF/R Markdown display tables from a data frame and a single gt() call, with functions that actually format numbers (fmt_number for decimals, format_currency with ISO codes), add titles/subtitles, create row stubs and row groups, insert ordered footnotes using cells_data/cells_column_labels location helpers, hide columns, color cells with palettes, and export HTML suitable for email; live demos show it handles a 50,000-row pizza dataset by summarizing to 14 rows and rendering correctly.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:25What is gt
3. 1:39Table features
4. 3:15Table parts
5. 4:55Functions
6. 7:52Demos
7. 8:58Data
8. 10:54Scientific notation
9. 11:57Info tables
10. 13:35Footnote
11. 14:33Column Labels
12. 15:03Title and Subtitle
13. 18:31Email

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