cells_title: Location helper for targeting the table title and subtitle

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Location helper for targeting the table title and subtitle

Description

The cells_title() function is used to target the table title or subtitle 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 header location where the title and optionally the subtitle reside is generated by the tab_header() function.

Usage

cells_title(groups = c("title", "subtitle"))

Arguments

groups

We can either specify "title", "subtitle", or both (the default) in a vector to target the title element, the subtitle element, or both elements.

Value

A list object of classes cells_title and location_cells.

Overview of location helper functions

Location helper functions can be used to target cells with virtually any function that has a locations argument. Here is a listing of all of the location helper functions, with locations corresponding roughly from top to bottom of a table:

• cells_title(): targets the table title or the table subtitle depending on the value given to the groups argument ("title" or "subtitle").

• cells_stubhead(): targets the stubhead location, a cell of which is only available when there is a stub; a label in that location can be created by using the tab_stubhead() function.

• cells_column_spanners(): targets the spanner column labels with the spanners argument; spanner column labels appear above the column labels.

• cells_column_labels(): targets the column labels with its columns argument.

• cells_row_groups(): targets the row group labels in any available row groups using the groups argument.

• cells_stub(): targets row labels in the table stub using the rows argument.

• cells_body(): targets data cells in the table body using intersections of columns and rows.

• cells_summary(): targets summary cells in the table body using the groups argument and intersections of columns and rows.

• cells_grand_summary(): targets cells of the table's grand summary using intersections of columns and rows

• cells_stub_summary(): targets summary row labels in the table stub using the groups and rows arguments.

• cells_stub_grand_summary(): targets grand summary row labels in the table stub using the rows argument.

• cells_footnotes(): targets all footnotes in the table footer (cannot be used with tab_footnote()).

• cells_source_notes(): targets all source notes in the table footer (cannot be used with tab_footnote()).

When using any of the location helper functions with an appropriate function that has a locations argument (e.g., tab_style()), multiple locations can be targeted by enclosing several ⁠cells_*()⁠ helper functions in a list() (e.g., list(cells_body(), cells_grand_summary())).

Examples

Use sp500 to create a gt table. Add a header with a title, and then add a footnote to the title with tab_footnote() and cells_title() (in locations).

sp500 |>
  dplyr::filter(date >= "2015-01-05" & date <="2015-01-10") |>
  dplyr::select(-c(adj_close, volume, high, low)) |>
  gt() |>
  tab_header(title = "S&P 500") |>
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = "All values in USD.",
    locations = cells_title(groups = "title")
  )

Function ID

8-6

Function Introduced

v0.2.0.5 (March 31, 2020)

See Also

Other helper functions: adjust_luminance(), cell_borders(), cell_fill(), cell_text(), cells_body(), cells_column_labels(), cells_column_spanners(), cells_footnotes(), cells_grand_summary(), cells_row_groups(), cells_source_notes(), cells_stub_grand_summary(), cells_stub_summary(), cells_stubhead(), cells_stub(), cells_summary(), currency(), default_fonts(), escape_latex(), google_font(), gt_latex_dependencies(), html(), md(), pct(), px(), random_id(), stub(), system_fonts()

gt documentation built on April 3, 2023, 5:18 p.m.