cells_column_labels: Location helper for targeting the column labels

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Location helper for targeting the column labels

Description

cells_column_labels() is used to target the table's column labels when applying a footnote with tab_footnote() or adding custom style with tab_style(). The function is expressly used in each of those functions' locations argument. The 'column_labels' location is present by default in every gt table.

Usage

cells_column_labels(columns = everything())

Arguments

columns

Columns to target ⁠<column-targeting expression>⁠ // default: everything() The columns to which targeting operations are constrained. Can either be a series of column names provided in c(), a vector of column indices, or a select helper function (e.g. starts_with(), ends_with(), contains(), matches(), num_range(), and everything()).

Value

A list object with the classes cells_column_labels and location_cells.

Targeting columns with the columns argument

The columns argument allows us to target a subset of columns contained in the table. We can declare column names in c() (with bare column names or names in quotes) or we can use tidyselect-style expressions. This can be as basic as supplying a select helper like starts_with(), or, providing a more complex incantation like

where(~ is.numeric(.x) & max(.x, na.rm = TRUE) > 1E6)

which targets numeric columns that have a maximum value greater than 1,000,000 (excluding any NAs from consideration).

Examples

Let's use a small portion of the sza dataset to create a gt table. Add footnotes to the column labels with tab_footnote() and cells_column_labels() in locations.

sza |>
  dplyr::filter(
    latitude == 20 & month == "jan" &
      !is.na(sza)
  ) |>
  dplyr::select(-latitude, -month) |>
  gt() |>
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = "True solar time.",
    locations = cells_column_labels(
      columns = tst
    )
  ) |>
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = "Solar zenith angle.",
    locations = cells_column_labels(
      columns = sza
    )
  )

Function ID

8-15

Function Introduced

v0.2.0.5 (March 31, 2020)

See Also

Other location helper functions: cells_body(), cells_column_spanners(), cells_footnotes(), cells_grand_summary(), cells_row_groups(), cells_source_notes(), cells_stub(), cells_stub_grand_summary(), cells_stub_summary(), cells_stubhead(), cells_summary(), cells_title(), location-helper

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