line_spacing: Set line spacing

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Set line spacing

Description

Change the line spacing of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

Usage

line_spacing(x, i = NULL, j = NULL, space = 1, part = "body")

Arguments

x	a 'flextable' object, see flextable-package to learn how to create 'flextable' object.
i	row selector, see section Row selection with the i parameter in <Selectors in flextable>.
j	column selector, see section Column selection with the j parameter in <Selectors in flextable>.
space	space between lines of text; 1 is single line spacing, 2 is double line spacing.
part	part selector, see section Part selection with the part parameter in <Selectors in flextable>. Value 'all' can be used.

See Also

Other formatting shortcuts: align(), bg(), bold(), color(), empty_blanks(), font(), fontsize(), highlight(), italic(), keep_with_next(), padding(), rotate(), style(), tab_settings(), valign()

Examples

ft <- flextable(head(mtcars)[, 3:6])
ft <- line_spacing(ft, space = 1.6, part = "all")
ft <- set_table_properties(ft, layout = "autofit")
ft

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