valign: Set vertical alignment

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Set vertical alignment

Description

change vertical alignment of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

Usage

valign(x, i = NULL, j = NULL, valign = "center", part = "body")

Arguments

x	a flextable object
i	rows selection
j	columns selection
valign	vertical alignment of paragraph within cell, one of "center" or "top" or "bottom".
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(), italic(), keep_with_next(), line_spacing(), padding(), rotate(), tab_settings()

Examples

ft_1 <- flextable(iris[c(1:3, 51:53, 101:103), ])
ft_1 <- theme_box(ft_1)
ft_1 <- merge_v(ft_1, j = 5)
ft_1

ft_2 <- valign(ft_1, j = 5, valign = "top", part = "all")
ft_2

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