Package index • flextable

Create flextable

These functions create ‘flextable’ objects that can be modified later.

flextable() qflextable(): flextable creation

as_flextable(): Method to transform objects into flextables

flextable-package: flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Global options

Reduce homogenization efforts and the number of functions to be called by defining formatting properties such as font, border color, number of decimal places displayed that should be applied by default.

set_flextable_defaults() init_flextable_defaults(): Modify flextable defaults formatting properties

get_flextable_defaults(): Get flextable defaults formatting properties

Output functions

print(<flextable>): flextable printing

knit_print(<flextable>): Render flextable with 'knitr'

body_add_flextable(): Add flextable into a Word document

ph_with(<flextable>): Add a flextable into a PowerPoint slide

plot(<flextable>): Plot a flextable

save_as_image(): Save a flextable in a 'png' or 'svg' file

save_as_html(): Save flextable objects in an 'HTML' file

save_as_docx(): Save flextable objects in a 'Word' file

save_as_rtf(): Save flextable objects in an 'RTF' file

save_as_pptx(): Save flextable objects in a 'PowerPoint' file

htmltools_value(): flextable as an 'HTML' object

gen_grob(): Convert a flextable to a grid grob object

plot(<flextableGrob>): plot a flextable grob

to_html(<flextable>): Get HTML code as a string

rtf_add(<flextable>): Add a 'flextable' into an RTF document

flextable_to_rmd(): Knitr rendering in loops and if statements

df_printer(): data.frame automatic printing as a flextable

use_df_printer(): Set data.frame automatic printing as a flextable

use_model_printer(): set model automatic printing as a flextable

body_replace_flextable_at_bkm(): Add flextable at boorkmark location in a Word document

Change visual properties

Modify the visual properties of the components of a ‘flextable’ such as font color, font size, word highlighting or cell background color.

style(): Set flextable style

align() align_text_col() align_nottext_col(): Set text alignment

bg(): Set background color

font(): Set font

fontsize(): Set font size

italic(): Set italic font

bold(): Set bold font

color(): Set font color

line_spacing(): Set text alignment

highlight(): Text highlight color

padding(): Set paragraph paddings

valign(): Set vertical alignment

rotate(): Rotate cell text

tab_settings(): Set tabulation marks configuration

empty_blanks(): Make blank columns as transparent

Management of borders

The border system is based on vertical and horizontal lines which can be easily specified. Some additional tools are provided for specific needs.

fp_border_default(): Border formatting properties

hline(): Set horizontal borders

hline_bottom(): Set bottom horizontal border

hline_top(): Set top horizontal border

vline(): Set vertical borders

vline_left(): Set flextable left vertical borders

vline_right(): Set flextable right vertical borders

border_inner(): Set vertical & horizontal inner borders

border_inner_h(): Set inner borders

border_inner_v(): Set vertical inner borders

border_outer(): Set outer borders

border_remove(): Remove borders

surround(): Set borders for a selection of cells

Flextable themes

Apply theme functions

theme_alafoli(): Apply alafoli theme

theme_apa(): Apply APA theme

theme_booktabs(): Apply booktabs theme

theme_box(): Apply box theme

theme_tron(): Apply tron theme

theme_tron_legacy(): Apply tron legacy theme

theme_vader(): Apply Sith Lord Darth Vader theme

theme_vanilla(): Apply vanilla theme

theme_zebra(): Apply zebra theme

Add headers and footers

Add header titles, comments in footers and new rows in body with the following functions, remove rows and columns.

add_header_row(): Add header labels

add_footer_row(): Add footer labels

add_header_lines(): Add labels as new rows in the header

add_footer_lines(): Add labels as new rows in the footer

add_header(): Add column values as new lines in header

add_footer(): Add column values as new lines in footer

separate_header(): Split column names using a separator into multiple rows

set_header_labels(): Change headers labels

set_header_df() set_footer_df(): Set flextable's header or footer rows

add_body(): Add column values as new lines in body

add_body_row(): Add body labels

delete_part(): Delete flextable part

delete_rows(): Delete flextable rows

delete_columns(): Delete flextable columns

Cell merging

merge_at(): Merge flextable cells into a single one

merge_h(): Merge flextable cells horizontally

merge_h_range(): Rowwise merge of a range of columns

merge_none(): Delete flextable merging informations

merge_v(): Merge flextable cells vertically

flextable dimensions

height() height_all(): Set flextable rows height

set_table_properties(): Global table properties

paginate(): Paginate tables

keep_with_next(): Set Word 'Keep with next' instructions

width(): Set columns width

hrule(): Set flextable rule for rows heights

autofit(): Adjusts cell widths and heights

fit_to_width(): Fit a flextable to a maximum width

dim(<flextable>): Get widths and heights of flextable

dim_pretty(): Calculate pretty dimensions

flextable_dim(): Get width and height of a flextable object

dim(<flextableGrob>): Get optimal width and height of a flextable grob

nrow_part(): Number of rows of a part

ncol_keys(): Number of columns

Define how to display the content

Simple tools for formatting the content of cells such as managing the number of decimals, adding suffixes or prefixes and defining the thousands separator.

colformat_char(): Format character cells

colformat_date(): Format date cells

colformat_datetime(): Format datetime cells

colformat_double(): Format numeric cells

colformat_image(): Format cells as images

colformat_int(): Format integer cells

colformat_lgl(): Format logical cells

colformat_num(): Format numeric cells

set_formatter(): Set column formatter functions

labelizor(): Change displayed labels

Mixed and complex content

How to define complex paragraphs with mixed content or to add images or chunks of text in existing cells.

compose() mk_par(): Define displayed values and mixed content

as_paragraph(): Concatenate chunks in a flextable

append_chunks(): Append chunks to flextable content

prepend_chunks(): Prepend chunks to flextable content

footnote(): Add footnotes to flextable

fp_text_default(): Text formatting properties

Elements for mixed content

Functions that can be called to create rich, formatted content. They are to be used within calls to mk_par(), append_chunks(), prepend_chunks() and possibly set_caption() functions.

as_chunk(): Chunk of text wrapper

as_image(): Image chunk wrapper

gg_chunk(): 'ggplots' chunk wrapper

plot_chunk(): Mini plots chunk wrapper

grid_chunk(): 'Grid Graphics' chunk wrapper

as_b(): Bold chunk

as_i(): Italic chunk

as_sub(): Subscript chunk

as_sup(): Superscript chunk

as_highlight(): Highlight chunk

colorize(): Colorize chunk

minibar(): Mini barplots chunk wrapper

linerange(): Mini linerange chunk wrapper

as_bracket(): Chunk with values in brackets

hyperlink_text(): Chunk of text with hyperlink

as_equation(): Equation chunk

as_word_field(): 'Word' computed field

Caption

set_caption(): Set Caption

miscellaneous

fmt_2stats() fmt_summarizor(): Format content for data generated with summarizor()

fmt_avg_dev(): Format content for mean and sd

fmt_dbl(): Format numerical data

fmt_header_n(): Format count data for headers

fmt_int(): Format numerical data as integer

fmt_n_percent(): Format content for count data

fmt_pct(): Format numerical data as percentages

fmt_signif_after_zeros(): Format with significant figures after zeros

before(): Is an element before a match with entries

void(): Delete flextable content

Transform objects into flextables with ‘as_flextable’

The as_flextable() function is used to transform specific objects into flextable objects. For example, you can transform a crosstab produced with the ‘tables’ package into a flextable which can then be formatted, annotated or augmented with footnotes.

tabulator() summary(<tabulator>): Tabulation of aggregations

tabulator_colnames(): Column keys of tabulator objects

summarizor(): Data summary preparation

as_flextable(): Method to transform objects into flextables

as_flextable(<data.frame>): Transform and summarise a 'data.frame' into a flextable Simple summary of a data.frame as a flextable

as_flextable(<gam>): Transform a 'gam' model into a flextable

as_flextable(<glm>): Transform a 'glm' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<grouped_data>): Transform a 'grouped_data' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<htest>): Transform a 'htest' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<kmeans>): Transform a 'kmeans' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<lm>): Transform a 'lm' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<merMod>) as_flextable(<lme>) as_flextable(<gls>) as_flextable(<nlme>) as_flextable(<brmsfit>) as_flextable(<glmmTMB>) as_flextable(<glmmadmb>): Transform a mixed model into a flextable

as_flextable(<pam>): Transform a 'pam' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<summarizor>): Transform a 'summarizor' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<table>): Transform a 'table' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<tabular>): Transform a 'tables::tabular' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<tabulator>): Transform a 'tabulator' object into a flextable

as_flextable(<xtable>): Transform a 'xtable' object into a flextable

continuous_summary(): Continuous columns summary

as_grouped_data(): Add row separators to grouped data

proc_freq(): Frequency table

shift_table(): Create a shift table