flextable (version 0.7.2)

font: Set font

Description

change font of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

Usage

font(
  x,
  i = NULL,
  j = NULL,
  fontname,
  part = "body",
  cs.family = fontname,
  hansi.family = fontname,
  eastasia.family = fontname
)

Arguments

x

a flextable object

i

rows selection

j

columns selection

fontname

single character value. With Word and PowerPoint output, the value specifies the font to be used to format characters in the Unicode range (U+0000-U+007F).

part

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

cs.family

Optional font to be used to format characters in a complex script Unicode range. For example, Arabic text might be displayed using the "Arial Unicode MS" font. Used only with Word and PowerPoint outputs. Its default value is the value of fontname.

hansi.family

optional. Specifies the font to be used to format characters in a Unicode range which does not fall into one of the other categories. Used only with Word and PowerPoint outputs. Its default value is the value of fontname.

eastasia.family

optional font to be used to format characters in an East Asian Unicode range. For example, Japanese text might be displayed using the "MS Mincho" font. Used only with Word and PowerPoint outputs. Its default value is the value of fontname.

Illustrations

See Also

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

Examples

require("gdtools")
fontname <- "Brush Script MT"

if (font_family_exists(fontname)) {
  ft_1 <- flextable(head(iris))
  ft_2 <- font(ft_1, fontname = fontname, part = "header")
  ft_2 <- font(ft_2, fontname = fontname, j = 5)
  ft_2
}