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Is it possible to adjust the width of columns when making tables with the kable() function in knitr?

A chunk like this for a table with two columns produces a table that takes up the entire width ...

This relates to the problem I'm trying to resolve here: Printing UTF-8 (Russian) characters in R, Rmd, knitr.

I was told that this problem does not exist if native locale was en_US.UTF-8. (My curr...