title: xtable + knitr set column width html
body: <p>How can I set the column widths of individual columns in the <code>knitr</code> (Rmd) output of a code chunk using the <code>xtable</code> package?</p>
  
  <p><strong>MWE</strong> </p>
  
  <pre><code>```{r setup, include=FALSE}
  library(xtable)
  ```
  
  ```{r, results="asis", echo=FALSE}
  print(xtable(mtcars[1:2, 1:2]), type="html", include.rownames=FALSE)
  ```
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Lets say I want to make column_#1 - 2 inches wide and column_#2 - 3 inches wide.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not married to <code>xtable</code> here but don't know of any other html table out packages that could do this.</p>