empty_blanks: Make blank columns as transparent

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Make blank columns as transparent

Description

blank columns are set as transparent. This is a shortcut function that will delete top and bottom borders, change background color to transparent, display empty content and set blank columns' width.

Usage

empty_blanks(x, width = 0.05, unit = "in", part = "all")

Arguments

x	a flextable object
width	width of blank columns (.1 inch by default).
unit	unit for width, one of "in", "cm", "mm".
part	partname of the table (one of 'all', 'body', 'header', 'footer')

See Also

Other sugar functions for table style: align(), bg(), bold(), color(), font(), fontsize(), highlight(), italic(), keep_with_next(), line_spacing(), padding(), rotate(), tab_settings(), valign()

Examples

typology <- data.frame(
  col_keys = c(
    "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width", "Petal.Length",
    "Petal.Width", "Species"
  ),
  what = c("Sepal", "Sepal", "Petal", "Petal", " "),
  measure = c("Length", "Width", "Length", "Width", "Species"),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)
typology

ftab <- flextable(head(iris), col_keys = c(
  "Species",
  "break1", "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width",
  "break2", "Petal.Length", "Petal.Width"
))
ftab <- set_header_df(ftab, mapping = typology, key = "col_keys")
ftab <- merge_h(ftab, part = "header")
ftab <- theme_vanilla(ftab)
ftab <- empty_blanks(ftab)
ftab <- width(ftab, j = c(2, 5), width = .1)
ftab

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