chunk of text wrapper

The function lets add formated text in flextable cells.

It is used to add it to the content of a cell of the flextable with the functions compose(), append_chunks() or prepend_chunks().

It should be used inside a call to as_paragraph().

as_chunk(x, props = NULL, formatter = format_fun, ...)

Arguments

x

text or any element that can be formatted as text with function provided in argument formatter.

props

an fp_text_default() or officer::fp_text() object to be used to format the text. If not specified, it will be the default value corresponding to the cell.

formatter

a function that will format x as a character vector.

...

additional arguments for formatter function.

Illustrations

See also

Other chunk elements for paragraph: as_bracket(), as_b(), as_equation(), as_highlight(), as_image(), as_i(), as_sub(), as_sup(), as_word_field(), colorize(), gg_chunk(), grid_chunk(), hyperlink_text(), linerange(), lollipop(), minibar(), plot_chunk()

Examples

library(officer)

ft <- flextable( head(iris))

ft <- compose( ft, j = "Sepal.Length",
 value = as_paragraph(
   "Sepal.Length value is ",
   as_chunk(Sepal.Length, props = fp_text(color = "red"))
 ),
 part = "body")
ft <- color(ft, color = "gray40", part = "all")
ft <- autofit(ft)
ft
#> a flextable object.
#> col_keys: `Sepal.Length`, `Sepal.Width`, `Petal.Length`, `Petal.Width`, `Species` 
#> header has 1 row(s) 
#> body has 6 row(s) 
#> original dataset sample: 
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa