How to add kableExtra table into RMarkdown Powerpoint slides - r

Question

I'm attempting to add a table into an RMarkdown Powerpoint Presentation using the kableExtra package. Initially, I tried to run the code without always_use_html in my YAML and the following error appeared.
Error: Functions that produce HTML output found in document targeting pptx output.
Please change the output type of this document to HTML. Alternatively, you can allow
HTML output in non-HTML formats by adding this option to the YAML front-matter of
your rmarkdown file:
always_allow_html: true
Note however that the HTML output will not be visible in non-HTML formats.
Execution halted
After adding always_allow_html to my YAML, my table is still not appearing as desired in my slide .
My table should look something like this
Does anyone perhaps know how to embed a kableExtra table in Rmarkdown slides?
Here is my full code
---
title: "Untitled"
output: powerpoint_presentation
always_use_html: true
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```
## Table
```{r table}
library(kableExtra)
data <- data.frame(a = c(1,2,3), b = c(4,5,6))
data %>%
kable() %>%
kable_styling()
```

Answer 1

Try kbl() instead of kable():
library(kableExtra)
data <- data.frame(a = c(1,2,3), b = c(4,5,6))
data %>%
kbl() %>%
kable_styling()

Answer 2

kable() renders to html in the viewer pane when run live, and can knit to html.
Office docs don't handle the html.
Options
include, pass a table to the default powerpoint style for your document with .rmd.
See:https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004672913-Rendering-PowerPoint-Presentations-with-the-RStudio-IDE
use officer with officemarkdown
Officer bookdown summary
-advanced styling to build a custom template can be done for reproducible
-you can save to powerpoint, then use table style editing to tweak, vs. setting the styling with style_type, style_id,style_name parameters in officedown