bold: Set bold font

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Set bold font

Description

Change the font weight of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

Usage

bold(x, i = NULL, j = NULL, bold = TRUE, part = "body")

Arguments

x	a 'flextable' object, see flextable-package to learn how to create 'flextable' object.
i	row selector, see section Row selection with the i parameter in <Selectors in flextable>.
j	column selector, see section Column selection with the j parameter in <Selectors in flextable>.
bold	boolean value
part	part selector, see section Part selection with the part parameter in <Selectors in flextable>. Value 'all' can be used.

See Also

Other formatting shortcuts: align(), bg(), color(), empty_blanks(), font(), fontsize(), highlight(), italic(), keep_with_next(), line_spacing(), padding(), rotate(), style(), tab_settings(), valign()

Examples

ft <- flextable(head(iris))
ft <- bold(ft, bold = TRUE, part = "header")

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