library(dplyr); library(knitr); library(kableExtra); 
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library(tidyr); library(stringr)
options(knitr.kable.NA = '')

Simple table manually generated

df <- data.frame(a = c(1, 2), 
                 b = c("[CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org)", "https://github.com"))
knitr::kable(df)
a b
1 CRAN
2 https://github.com

My example of an auto generated name

hw   <- data.frame(filenames = paste0('hw/', list.files("hw", pattern='template|*.pdf|*.html|*.docx')))

out.hw <- hw %>% mutate(name = gsub("hw/|_template",  "", filenames), 
                          type = str_extract(hw$filenames,".{3}$"),
                          type = ifelse(type=="tml", "html", type),
                          type = ifelse(type=="ocx", "docx", type),
                          nam = gsub(".html|.pdf|.Rmd|.docx", "", name), 
                          link = sprintf("[%s](%s)",type, filenames))

x = out.hw %>% select(link, type, nam) %>% 
    reshape2::dcast(nam~type, value.var="link") %>% 
    kable(format="html") %>%
    kable_styling(bootstrap_options = c("striped", "hover", "condensed", "responsive" ,"bordered"), 
                  full_width=FALSE,  position = "left")
gsub("<thead>.*</thead>", "", x)
hw00_setup html pdf
hw01_data_entry docx html pdf
sessionInfo()
## R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt)
## Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
## Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19043)
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## Matrix products: default
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## locale:
## [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
## [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
## [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
## [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
## [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    
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## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
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## [1] stringr_1.4.0    tidyr_1.2.0      kableExtra_1.3.4 knitr_1.39      
## [5] dplyr_1.0.9     
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##  [5] bslib_0.4.0       compiler_4.2.1    jquerylib_0.1.4   tools_4.2.1      
##  [9] digest_0.6.29     viridisLite_0.4.0 jsonlite_1.8.0    evaluate_0.15    
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## [29] webshot_0.5.3     tidyselect_1.1.2  svglite_2.1.0     glue_1.6.2       
## [33] R6_2.5.1          fansi_1.0.3       rmarkdown_2.14    reshape2_1.4.4   
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## [45] utf8_1.2.2        stringi_1.7.8     munsell_0.5.0     cachem_1.0.6