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Set column formatter functions

Source: R/formatters.R
set_formatter.Rd

Apply formatter functions to column keys.

Functions should have a single argument (the vector) and should return the formatted values as a character vector.

Usage

set_formatter(x, ..., values = NULL, part = "body")

Arguments

x

a 'flextable' object, see flextable-package to learn how to create 'flextable' object.

...

Name-value pairs of functions, names should be existing col_key values

values

format functions, If values is supplied argument ... is ignored.

  • It can be a list of name-value pairs of functions, names should be existing col_key values.

  • If values is a single function, it will be applied to each column.

part

part selector, see section Part selection with the part parameter in <Selectors in flextable>. Value 'all' is not allowed by the function.

See also

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

Examples

ft <- flextable(head(iris))
ft <- set_formatter(
  x = ft,
  Sepal.Length = function(x) sprintf("%.02f", x),
  Sepal.Width = function(x) sprintf("%.04f", x)
)
ft <- theme_vanilla(ft)
ft

Sepal.Length
Sepal.Width
Petal.Length
Petal.Width
Species
5.10
3.5000
1.4
0.2
setosa
4.90
3.0000
1.4
0.2
setosa
4.70
3.2000
1.3
0.2
setosa
4.60
3.1000
1.5
0.2
setosa
5.00
3.6000
1.4
0.2
setosa
5.40
3.9000
1.7
0.4
setosa