Set vertical alignment

Source: R/styles.R

change vertical alignment of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

valign(x, i = NULL, j = NULL, valign = "center", part = "body")

Arguments

x

a flextable object

i

rows selection

j

columns selection

valign

vertical alignment of paragraph within cell, one of "center" or "top" or "bottom".

part

partname of the table (one of 'all', 'body', 'header', 'footer')

Illustrations

See also

Other sugar functions for table style: align(), bg(), bold(), color(), empty_blanks(), fontsize(), font(), highlight(), italic(), line_spacing(), padding(), rotate()

Examples

ft_1 <- flextable(iris[c(1:3, 51:53, 101:103), ])
ft_1 <- theme_box(ft_1)
ft_1 <- merge_v(ft_1, j = 5)
ft_1
#> a flextable object.
#> col_keys: `Sepal.Length`, `Sepal.Width`, `Petal.Length`, `Petal.Width`, `Species` 
#> header has 1 row(s) 
#> body has 9 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
#> 51          7.0         3.2          4.7         1.4 versicolor
#> 52          6.4         3.2          4.5         1.5 versicolor

ft_2 <- valign(ft_1, j = 5, valign = "top", part = "all")
ft_2
#> a flextable object.
#> col_keys: `Sepal.Length`, `Sepal.Width`, `Petal.Length`, `Petal.Width`, `Species` 
#> header has 1 row(s) 
#> body has 9 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
#> 51          7.0         3.2          4.7         1.4 versicolor
#> 52          6.4         3.2          4.5         1.5 versicolor