as_chunk: Chunk of text wrapper

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Chunk of text wrapper

Description

The function lets add formated text in flextable cells.

It is used to add it to the content of a cell of the flextable with the functions compose(), append_chunks() or prepend_chunks().

It should be used inside a call to as_paragraph().

Usage

as_chunk(x, props = NULL, formatter = format_fun, ...)

Arguments

x	text or any element that can be formatted as text with function provided in argument formatter.
props	an fp_text_default() or officer::fp_text() object to be used to format the text. If not specified, it will be the default value corresponding to the cell.
formatter	a function that will format x as a character vector.
...	additional arguments for formatter function.

See Also

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

Examples

library(officer)

ft <- flextable(head(iris))

ft <- compose(ft,
  j = "Sepal.Length",
  value = as_paragraph(
    "Sepal.Length value is ",
    as_chunk(Sepal.Length, props = fp_text(color = "red"))
  ),
  part = "body"
)
ft <- color(ft, color = "gray40", part = "all")
ft <- autofit(ft)
ft

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