Set flextable's header or footer rows

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.

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.

Illustrations

See also

Other functions to add rows in header or footer: add_footer_lines(), add_footer_row(), add_footer(), add_header_lines(), add_header_row(), add_header(), separate_header(), set_header_labels()

Examples

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_1 <- flextable(head(iris))
ft_1 <- set_header_df(ft_1, mapping = typology, key = "col_keys")
ft_1 <- merge_h(ft_1, part = "header")
ft_1 <- merge_v(ft_1, j = "Species", part = "header")
ft_1 <- theme_vanilla(ft_1)
ft_1 <- fix_border_issues(ft_1)
ft_1
#> a flextable object.
#> col_keys: `Sepal.Length`, `Sepal.Width`, `Petal.Length`, `Petal.Width`, `Species` 
#> header has 2 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


typology <- data.frame(
  col_keys = c(
    "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width", "Petal.Length",
    "Petal.Width", "Species"
  ),
  unit = c("(cm)", "(cm)", "(cm)", "(cm)", ""),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)
ft_2 <- set_footer_df(ft_1, mapping = typology, key = "col_keys")
ft_2 <- italic(ft_2, italic = TRUE, part = "footer")
ft_2 <- theme_booktabs(ft_2)
ft_2 <- fix_border_issues(ft_2)
ft_2
#> a flextable object.
#> col_keys: `Sepal.Length`, `Sepal.Width`, `Petal.Length`, `Petal.Width`, `Species` 
#> header has 2 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