flextable (version 0.3.0)

empty_blanks: make blank columns as transparent

Description

blank columns are set as transparent. This is a shortcut function that will delete top and bottom borders, change background color to transparent and display empty content.

Usage

empty_blanks(x)

Arguments

x

a flextable object

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(magrittr)

typology <- data.frame(
  col_keys = c( "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width", "Petal.Length",
                "Petal.Width", "Species" ),
  what = c("Sepal", "Sepal", "Petal", "Petal", " "),
  measure = c("Length", "Width", "Length", "Width", "Species"),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE )
typology

head(iris) %>%
  flextable(
    col_keys = c("Species",
                 "break1", "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width",
                 "break2", "Petal.Length", "Petal.Width") ) %>%
  set_header_df(mapping = typology, key = "col_keys" ) %>%
  merge_h(part = "header") %>%
  theme_vanilla() %>%
  empty_blanks() %>%
  width(j = c(2, 5), width = .1 )
# }