title: column widths in markdown tables embedded in rmarkdown documents
body: <p>Is it possible to set column widths with markdown tables in Rmarkdown? When the text in column 2 gets long the table goes to an equal split between cols 1 and 2. I reviewed answers to what seems like a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36121672/set-table-column-width-via-markdown">similar question</a> but nothing seems to be quite right.</p>
  <p>I'd like something closer to Version 1 compared to Version 2.</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JOhHT.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JOhHT.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <pre><code>---
  title: &quot;Untitled&quot;
  output: 
    bookdown::html_document2:
      toc: true
      toc_float: true
      toc_depth: 1
      code_folding: show
      theme: default
      highlight: tango
  ---
  
  # Version 1
  
  | Something | Else |
  |:--|:--|
  | Short | This is longer this is longer this is longer  |
  | Short | |
  
  # Version 2
  
  | Something | Else |
  |:--|:--|
  | Short | This is longer this is longer this is longer this is longer this is longer this is longer |
  | Short | |
  </code></pre>