add_footer_lines: Add labels as new rows in the footer

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Add labels as new rows in the footer

Description

Add labels as new rows in the footer, where all columns are merged.

This is a sugar function to be used when you need to add labels in the footer, a footnote for example.

Usage

add_footer_lines(x, values = character(0), top = FALSE)

Arguments

x	a flextable object
values	a character vector or a call to as_paragraph() to get formated content, each element will be added as a new row.
top	should the row be inserted at the top or the bottom. Default to TRUE.

See Also

Other functions for row and column operations in a flextable: add_body(), add_body_row(), add_footer(), add_footer_row(), add_header(), add_header_row(), delete_columns(), delete_part(), delete_rows(), separate_header(), set_header_footer_df, set_header_labels()

Examples

ft_1 <- flextable(head(iris))
ft_1 <- add_footer_lines(ft_1,
  values = c("blah 1", "blah 2")
)
ft_1

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