htmltools_value: Convert a flextable to an HTML object

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Convert a flextable to an HTML object

Description

get a htmltools::div() from a flextable object. This can be used in a shiny application. For an output within "R Markdown" document, use knit_print.flextable.

Usage

htmltools_value(
  x,
  ft.align = NULL,
  ft.shadow = NULL,
  extra_dependencies = NULL
)

Arguments

x	a 'flextable' object, see flextable-package to learn how to create 'flextable' object.
ft.align	flextable alignment, supported values are 'left', 'center' and 'right'.
ft.shadow	deprecated.
extra_dependencies	a list of HTML dependencies to add in the HTML output.

Value

an object marked as htmltools::HTML ready to be used within a call to shiny::renderUI for example.

See Also

Other functions for flextable output and export: df_printer(), flextable_to_rmd(), gen_grob(), knit_print.flextable(), plot.flextable(), print.flextable(), save_as_docx(), save_as_html(), save_as_image(), save_as_pptx(), save_as_rtf(), to_html.flextable(), wrap_flextable()

Examples

htmltools_value(flextable(iris[1:5, ]))

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