grid_chunk: 'Grid Graphics' chunk wrapper

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

'Grid Graphics' chunk wrapper

Description

This function is used to insert grid objects into flextable with functions:

• compose() and as_paragraph(),

• append_chunks(),

• prepend_chunks().

Usage

grid_chunk(value, width = 1, height = 0.2, unit = "in", res = 300)

Arguments

value	grid objects, stored in a list column; or a list of grid objects.
width, height	size of the resulting png file
unit	unit for width and height, one of "in", "cm", "mm".
res	resolution of the png image in ppi

Note

This chunk option requires package officedown in a R Markdown context with Word output format.

PowerPoint cannot mix images and text in a paragraph, images are removed when outputing to PowerPoint format.

See Also

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

Examples

library(flextable)
ft_1 <- flextable(head(cars))
if (require("grid")) {
  ft_1 <- prepend_chunks(
    x = ft_1, i = 2, j = 2,
    grid_chunk(
      list(
        circleGrob(gp = gpar(
          fill = "#ec11c2",
          col = "transparent"
        ))
      ),
      width = .15, height = .15
    )
  )
}
ft_1

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