italic: Set italic font

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Set italic font

Description

change font decoration of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

Usage

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

Arguments

x	a flextable object
i	rows selection
j	columns selection
italic	boolean value
part	partname of the table (one of 'all', 'body', 'header', 'footer')

See Also

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

Examples

ft <- flextable(head(mtcars))
ft <- italic(ft, italic = TRUE, part = "header")

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