reference a markdown table in R markdown - r-markdown

Question

My question is how to reference tables in markdown format like the following because the answer here doesn't work
Referencing a 'hand-made' table using bookdown package
I tried
---
output: html_document
---
you may refer to this table using \#ref(tab:foo)
Table: (\#tab:foo) Your table caption.
+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
| Auteur | Protocole | Résultats |
+=======================+=======================+=======================+
| (Jiayi 2011) | Analyse formantique | Diphtongaison de [e |
+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
and it didn't work.
it gives "Table : (#tab:foo) Your table caption." as the caption and "you may refer to this table using #ref(tab:foo)" If I cross reference using #ref(tab:foo).
Is it possible also to have automatic numbering ?

Answer 1

Looks like you just need to use bookdown's output formats.
---
output:
bookdown::html_document2:
df_print: paged
---
you may refer to this table using \#ref(tab:foo)
Table: (\#tab:foo) Your table caption.
+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
| Auteur | Protocole | Résultats |
+=======================+=======================+=======================+
| (Jiayi 2011) | Analyse formantique | Diphtongaison de [e |
+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+

Answer 2

The answer here works for me:
I am joining the discussion a bit late, but I just wanted to share a working MWE (based on the earlier answers):
```{r , echo=FALSE, results='asis'}
cat(' Table: (\\#tab:mwe) Example
| Sepal.Length| Sepal.Width| Petal.Length|
|------------:|-----------:|------------:|
| 5.1| 3.5| 1.4|
| 4.9| 3.0| 1.4|
| 4.7| 3.2| 1.3|
| 4.6| 3.1| 1.5|')```
The table can now be reference via \#ref(tab:mwe) in bookdown. This is working for me in pdf and html exports.
Note that if you would like to add greek letters or more complicated sub-or superscripts, you will need to include the following text reference outside of the code chunk
(ref:flower) Flower~dimensions\ example~
```{r , echo=FALSE, results='asis'}
cat(' Table: (\\#tab:mwe) Example with (ref:flower)
| Sepal.Length| Sepal.Width| Petal.Length|
|------------:|-----------:|------------:|
| 5.1| 3.5| 1.4|
| 4.9| 3.0| 1.4|
| 4.7| 3.2| 1.3|
| 4.6| 3.1| 1.5|')```