Change headers labels

This function set labels for specified columns in the bottom row header of a flextable.

set_header_labels(x, ..., values = NULL)

Arguments

x

a flextable object

...

named arguments (names are data colnames), each element is a single character value specifying label to use.

values

a named list (names are data colnames), each element is a single character value specifying label to use. If provided, argument ... will be ignored.

Illustrations

See also

Other functions to add rows in a flextable: add_body_row(), add_body(), add_footer_lines(), add_footer_row(), add_footer(), add_header_row(), add_header(), separate_header(), set_header_footer_df

Examples

ft <- flextable(head(iris))
ft <- set_header_labels(ft,
  Sepal.Length = "Sepal length",
  Sepal.Width = "Sepal width", Petal.Length = "Petal length",
  Petal.Width = "Petal width"
)

ft <- flextable(head(iris))
ft <- set_header_labels(ft,
  values = list(
    Sepal.Length = "Sepal length",
    Sepal.Width = "Sepal width",
    Petal.Length = "Petal length",
    Petal.Width = "Petal width"
  )
)
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