width: Set columns width

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Set columns width

Description

Defines the widths of one or more columns in the table. This function will have no effect if you have used set_table_properties(layout = "autofit").

set_table_properties() can provide an alternative to fixed-width layouts that is supported with HTML and Word output that can be set with set_table_properties(layout = "autofit").

Usage

width(x, j = NULL, width, unit = "in")

Arguments

x	a flextable() object
j	columns selection
width	width in inches
unit	unit for width, one of "in", "cm", "mm".

Details

Heights are not used when flextable is been rendered into HTML.

See Also

Other functions for flextable size management: autofit(), dim.flextable(), dim_pretty(), fit_to_width(), flextable_dim(), height(), hrule(), ncol_keys(), nrow_part()

Examples

ft <- flextable(head(iris))
ft <- width(ft, width = 1.5)
ft

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