The function is applying vertical borders to the left side of one or all parts of a flextable. The line is the left border of selected cells of the first column.
vline_left(x, i = NULL, border = NULL, part = "all")
a flextable object
rows selection
border properties defined by a call to fp_border()
partname of the table (one of 'all', 'body', 'header', 'footer')
Other borders management:
border_inner_h()
,
border_inner_v()
,
border_inner()
,
border_outer()
,
border_remove()
,
hline_bottom()
,
hline_top()
,
hline()
,
surround()
,
vline_right()
,
vline()
library(officer)
std_border = fp_border(color="orange")
ft <- flextable(head(iris))
ft <- border_remove(x = ft)
# add vertical border on the left side of the table
ft <- vline_left(ft, border = std_border )
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