process_table_for_flextable: Core flextable processing function

In summata: Publication-Ready Summary Tables and Forest Plots

Core flextable processing function

Description

Central processing function for creating flextable objects from data tables. Handles N row extraction, condensing, indentation, zebra stripes, formatting, and styling. Used by table2docx, table2pptx, and table2rtf.

Usage

process_table_for_flextable(
  table,
  caption = NULL,
  font_size = 10,
  font_family = "Arial",
  format_headers = TRUE,
  bold_significant = TRUE,
  p_threshold = 0.05,
  indent_groups = FALSE,
  condense_table = FALSE,
  condense_quantitative = FALSE,
  zebra_stripes = FALSE,
  dark_header = FALSE,
  bold_variables = TRUE,
  paper = "letter",
  orientation = "portrait",
  width = NULL,
  align = NULL
)

Arguments

table	Data.frame or data.table to process.
caption	Optional character string for table caption.
font_size	Numeric font size in points.
font_family	Character string font family name.
format_headers	Logical whether to format headers.
bold_significant	Logical whether to bold significant p-values.
p_threshold	Numeric p-value threshold for significance.
indent_groups	Logical whether to indent group levels.
condense_table	Logical whether to condense all variable types.
condense_quantitative	Logical whether to condense only continuous/survival.
zebra_stripes	Logical whether to apply alternating row shading.
dark_header	Logical whether to use dark header style.
bold_variables	Logical whether to bold variable names (non-indented rows).
paper	Character string paper size.
orientation	Character string page orientation.
width	Optional numeric table width in inches.
align	Optional alignment specification.

Value

List with ft (flextable object) and caption components.

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