flextable (version 0.7.2)

plot_chunk: mini plots chunk wrapper

Description

This function is used to insert mini plots into flextable with function compose(). It should be used inside a call to as_paragraph().

Available plots are 'box', 'line', 'points', 'density'.

Usage

plot_chunk(
  value,
  width = 1,
  height = 0.2,
  type = "box",
  free_scale = FALSE,
  unit = "in",
  ...
)

Arguments

value

a numeric vector, stored in a list column.

width, height

size of the resulting png file in inches

type

type of the plot: 'box', 'line', 'points' or 'density'.

free_scale

Should scales be free (TRUE or FALSE, the default value).

unit

unit for width and height, one of "in", "cm", "mm".

...

arguments sent to plot functions (see par())

Illustrations

See Also

Other chunk elements for paragraph: as_bracket(), as_b(), as_chunk(), as_equation(), as_highlight(), as_image(), as_i(), as_sub(), as_sup(), as_word_field(), colorize(), gg_chunk(), hyperlink_text(), linerange(), lollipop(), minibar()

Examples

library(data.table)
library(flextable)

z <- as.data.table(iris)
z <- z[ , list(
  Sepal.Length = mean(Sepal.Length, na.rm  = TRUE),
  z = list(.SD$Sepal.Length)
  ), by = "Species"]

ft <- flextable(z,
  col_keys = c("Species", "Sepal.Length", "box", "density"))
ft <- mk_par(ft, j = "box", value = as_paragraph(
  plot_chunk(value = z, type = "box",
             border = "red", col = "transparent")))
ft <- mk_par(ft, j = "density", value = as_paragraph(
 plot_chunk(value = z, type = "dens", col = "red")))
ft <- set_table_properties(ft, layout = "autofit", width = .6)
ft <- set_header_labels(ft, box = "boxplot", density= "density")
theme_vanilla(ft)