as_sup: Superscript chunk

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Superscript chunk

Description

The function is producing a chunk with superscript vertical alignment.

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

Usage

as_sup(x)

Arguments

x	value, if a chunk, the chunk will be updated

Note

This is a sugar function that ease the composition of complex labels made of different formattings. It should be used inside a call to as_paragraph().

See Also

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

Examples

ft <- flextable(head(iris), col_keys = c("dummy"))

ft <- compose(ft,
  i = 1, j = "dummy", part = "header",
  value = as_paragraph(
    " anything ",
    as_sup("Sepal.Width")
  )
)

ft <- autofit(ft)
ft

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