Set flextable's headers labels

Source: R/set_headers.R

This function set labels for specified columns in a single 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 headers and footers: add_header_lines(), add_header_row(), add_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