format character cells

Format character cells in a flextable.

colformat_char(
  x,
  i = NULL,
  j = NULL,
  na_str = get_flextable_defaults()$na_str,
  nan_str = get_flextable_defaults()$nan_str,
  prefix = "",
  suffix = ""
)

Arguments

x

a flextable object

i

rows selection

j

columns selection.

na_str, nan_str

string to be used for NA and NaN values

prefix, suffix

string to be used as prefix or suffix

See also

Other cells formatters: colformat_datetime(), colformat_date(), colformat_double(), colformat_image(), colformat_int(), colformat_lgl(), colformat_num(), set_formatter()

Examples

dat <- iris
z <- flextable(head(dat))
ft <- colformat_char(
  x = z, j = "Species", suffix = "!")
z <- autofit(z)
z
#> 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