 #BCBCBC;">1</span> Allan Houston    Pistons, Knicks                Shooting guard</span></span>
<span><span class="co">#&gt; <span style="color: #BCBCBC;">2</span> Latrell Sprewell Warriors, Knicks, Timberwolves Small forward</span></span></code></pre></div>
<p>This is more or less the opposite to <code>separate_rows()</code>
from <code>tidyr</code>.</p>
<p><strong>Line breaks</strong> meant to separate values inside a merged
cell can be problematic. This often results from parsing tables from PDF
or Word 