padding: Set paragraph paddings

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Set paragraph paddings

Description

change paddings of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

Usage

padding(
  x,
  i = NULL,
  j = NULL,
  padding = NULL,
  padding.top = NULL,
  padding.bottom = NULL,
  padding.left = NULL,
  padding.right = NULL,
  part = "body"
)

Arguments

x	a flextable object
i	rows selection
j	columns selection
padding	padding (shortcut for top, bottom, left and right), unit is pts (points).
padding.top	padding top, unit is pts (points).
padding.bottom	padding bottom, unit is pts (points).
padding.left	padding left, unit is pts (points).
padding.right	padding right, unit is pts (points).
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(), fontsize(), font(), highlight(), italic(), keep_with_next(), line_spacing(), rotate(), valign()

Examples

ft_1 <- flextable(head(iris))
ft_1 <- theme_vader(ft_1)
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, padding.top = 4, part = "all")
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, j = 1, padding.right = 40)
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, i = 3, padding.top = 40)
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, padding.top = 10, part = "header")
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, padding.bottom = 10, part = "header")
ft_1 <- autofit(ft_1)
ft_1

flextable documentation built on Oct. 23, 2023, 1:07 a.m.