Set vertical alignment

Change the vertical alignment of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

Usage

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

Arguments

x

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

i

row selector, see section Row selection with the i parameter in <Selectors in flextable>.

j

column selector, see section Column selection with the j parameter in <Selectors in flextable>.

valign

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

part

part selector, see section Part selection with the part parameter in <Selectors in flextable>. Value 'all' can be used.

See also

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

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
Sepal.Length
Sepal.Width
Petal.Length
Petal.Width
Species
5.1
3.5
1.4
0.2
setosa
4.9
3.0
1.4
0.2
4.7
3.2
1.3
0.2
7.0
3.2
4.7
1.4
versicolor
6.4
3.2
4.5
1.5
6.9
3.1
4.9
1.5
6.3
3.3
6.0
2.5
virginica
5.8
2.7
5.1
1.9
7.1
3.0
5.9
2.1

ft_2 <- valign(ft_1, j = 5, valign = "top", part = "all")
ft_2
Sepal.Length
Sepal.Width
Petal.Length
Petal.Width
Species
5.1
3.5
1.4
0.2
setosa
4.9
3.0
1.4
0.2
4.7
3.2
1.3
0.2
7.0
3.2
4.7
1.4
versicolor
6.4
3.2
4.5
1.5
6.9
3.1
4.9
1.5
6.3
3.3
6.0
2.5
virginica
5.8
2.7
5.1
1.9
7.1
3.0
5.9
2.1