flextable (version 0.5.1)

set_header_footer_df: Set flextable's header or footer rows

Description

Use a data.frame to specify flextable's header or footer rows.

The data.frame must contain a column whose values match flextable col_keys argument, this column will be used as join key. The other columns will be displayed as header or footer rows. The leftmost column is used as the top header/footer row and the rightmost column is used as the bottom header/footer row.

Usage

set_header_df(x, mapping = NULL, key = "col_keys")
set_footer_df(x, mapping = NULL, key = "col_keys")

Arguments

x

a flextable object

mapping

a data.frame specyfing for each colname content of the column.

key

column to use as key when joigning data_mapping.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
typology <- data.frame(
  col_keys = c( "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width", "Petal.Length",
                "Petal.Width", "Species" ),
  what = c("Sepal", "Sepal", "Petal", "Petal", "Species"),
  measure = c("Length", "Width", "Length", "Width", "Species"),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE )

ft <- flextable( head( iris ))
ft <- set_header_df(ft, mapping = typology, key = "col_keys" )
ft <- merge_h(ft, part = "header")
ft <- merge_v(ft, j = "Species", part = "header")
ft <- theme_vanilla(ft)


typology <- data.frame(
  col_keys = c( "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width", "Petal.Length",
                "Petal.Width", "Species" ),
  unit = c("(cm)", "(cm)", "(cm)", "(cm)", ""),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE )
ft <- set_footer_df(ft, mapping = typology, key = "col_keys" )
ft <- italic(ft, italic = TRUE, part = "footer" )
ft <- theme_booktabs(ft)
ft
# }