I found this post talking about a similar problem I have. I would like to get a table that already contains html tags (<b></b>) to set substrings in bold. Unfortunately, flextable does not return text in bold, but instead write html tags as plain text.
The solution that was proposed was to use colformat_md function from ftExtra. Unfortunately, this takes quite long depending on the number of rows and it relies on bold strings defined by **.
Is there another way to render html tags contained in the table when using flextable ? The goal is then to insert the table in a Word document.