minibar: Mini barplots chunk wrapper

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Mini barplots chunk wrapper

Description

This function is used to insert bars into flextable with functions:

• compose() and as_paragraph(),

• append_chunks(),

• prepend_chunks().

Usage

minibar(
  value,
  max = NULL,
  barcol = "#CCCCCC",
  bg = "transparent",
  width = 1,
  height = 0.2,
  unit = "in"
)

Arguments

value	values containing the bar size
max	max bar size
barcol	bar color
bg	background color
width, height	size of the resulting png file in inches
unit	unit for width and height, one of "in", "cm", "mm".

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

compose(), as_paragraph()

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(), grid_chunk(), hyperlink_text(), linerange(), plot_chunk()

Examples

ft <- flextable(head(iris, n = 10))

ft <- compose(ft,
  j = 1,
  value = as_paragraph(
    minibar(value = Sepal.Length, max = max(Sepal.Length))
  ),
  part = "body"
)

ft <- autofit(ft)
ft

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