flextable (version 0.4.0)

set_header_df: Set flextable's header rows

Description

Use a data.frame to specify flextable's header rows.

The data.frame must contain a column whose values match flextable col_keys argument, this column will be used as join key. The other columns will be displayed as header rows. The leftmost column is used as the top header row and the rightmost column is used as the bottom header row.

Usage

set_header_df(x, mapping = NULL, key = "col_keys")

Arguments

x

a flextable object

mapping

a data.frame specyfing for each colname content of the column.

key

column to use as key when joigning data_mapping.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
typology <- data.frame(
  col_keys = c( "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width", "Petal.Length",
                "Petal.Width", "Species" ),
  what = c("Sepal", "Sepal", "Petal", "Petal", "Species"),
  measure = c("Length", "Width", "Length", "Width", "Species"),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE )

ft <- flextable( head( iris ))
ft <- set_header_df(ft, mapping = typology, key = "col_keys" )
ft <- merge_h(ft, part = "header")
ft <- merge_v(ft, j = "Species", part = "header")
ft <- theme_vanilla(ft)
ft
# }