flextable (version 0.6.3)

plot_chunk: mini plots chunk wrapper

Description

This function is used to insert mini plots into flextable with function compose(). It should be used inside a call to as_paragraph().

Available plots are 'box', 'line', 'points', 'density'.

Usage

plot_chunk(
  value,
  width = 1,
  height = 0.2,
  type = "box",
  free_scale = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

value

a numeric vector, stored in a list column.

width, height

size of the resulting png file in inches

type

type of the plot: 'box', 'line', 'points' or 'density'.

free_scale

Should scales be free (TRUE or FALSE, the default value).

...

arguments sent to plot functions (see par())

Illustrations

See Also

Other chunk elements for paragraph: as_bracket(), as_b(), as_chunk(), as_image(), as_i(), as_sub(), as_sup(), gg_chunk(), hyperlink_text(), linerange(), lollipop(), minibar()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(data.table)
library(flextable)

z <- as.data.table(iris)
z <- z[ , list(
  Sepal.Length = mean(Sepal.Length, na.rm  = TRUE),
  z = list(.SD$Sepal.Length)
  ), by = "Species"]

ft <- flextable(z,
  col_keys = c("Species", "Sepal.Length", "box", "density"))
ft <- mk_par(ft, j = "box", value = as_paragraph(
  plot_chunk(value = z, type = "box",
             border = "red", col = "transparent")))
ft <- mk_par(ft, j = "density", value = as_paragraph(
 plot_chunk(value = z, type = "dens", col = "red")))
ft <- set_table_properties(ft, layout = "autofit", width = .6)
ft <- set_header_labels(ft, box = "boxplot", density= "density")
theme_vanilla(ft)
# }