hline: Set horizontal borders

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Set horizontal borders

Description

The function is applying an horizontal border to inner content of one or all parts of a flextable. The lines are the bottom borders of selected cells.

Usage

hline(x, i = NULL, j = NULL, border = NULL, part = "body")

Arguments

x	a flextable object
i	rows selection
j	columns selection
border	border properties defined by a call to officer::fp_border()
part	partname of the table (one of 'all', 'body', 'header', 'footer')

See Also

Other borders management: border_inner(), border_inner_h(), border_inner_v(), border_outer(), border_remove(), hline_bottom(), hline_top(), surround(), vline(), vline_left(), vline_right()

Examples

library(officer)
std_border <- fp_border(color = "gray")

ft <- flextable(head(iris))
ft <- border_remove(x = ft)

# add horizontal borders
ft <- hline(ft, part = "all", border = std_border)
ft

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