Generated tex has a Float Lost error

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Problem

Report generation fails during .tex compilation to pdf due to "Float(s) lost" error.
The error can be observed by running the smoke tests and looking at the resulting report_v3.log in the tests directory.
This is likely a result of dependency updates when the Ubuntu instance was rebuit after the original image was deprecated.

Source

In commit f15bc31, on the quarter_range_fix branch, The error is corrected by commenting out the call to kable_styling in the table generation.

    knitr::kable(tbl82C4A3,  format.args = list(digits=3), align='c',
                 booktabs=T, format="latex") %>%
    # kable_styling(font_size = 14) %>%
    row_spec(0, bold=T) %>%
    footnote(symbol="\\\\small Other includes Depo, pills, and condoms",
             escape=F)

The difference in the generated .tex is the addition of the table environment and \begingroup surrounding the \tabular.

\begin{table}
\centering
\begingroup\fontsize{14}{16}\selectfont

\begin{tabular}{ccc}
 ...
\end{tabular}
\endgroup{}
\end{table}

Avenues of investigation

• Do a deeper dive into the .tex and see if the table float or begingroup is a known issue inside a minipage.
• Try different tex rendering engine. E.g. see if MikTex has the same issue.