prepend_chunks: Prepend chunks to flextable content

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Prepend chunks to flextable content

Description

prepend chunks (for example chunk as_chunk()) in a flextable.

Usage

prepend_chunks(x, ..., i = NULL, j = NULL, part = "body")

Arguments

x	a 'flextable' object, see flextable-package to learn how to create 'flextable' object.
...	chunks to be prepended, see as_chunk(), gg_chunk() and other chunk elements for paragraph.
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>.
part	part selector, see section Part selection with the part parameter in <Selectors in flextable>. Value 'all' is not allowed by the function.

See Also

Other functions to compose cell content: append_chunks(), as_paragraph(), compose(), footnote(), labelizor(), void()

Examples

x <- flextable(head(iris))
x <- prepend_chunks(
  x,
  i = 1, j = 1,
  colorize(as_b("Hello "), color = "red"),
  colorize(as_i("World"), color = "magenta")
)
x

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