style_tt: Style a Tiny Table

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Style a Tiny Table

Description

Style a Tiny Table

Usage

style_tt(
  x,
  i = NULL,
  j = NULL,
  bold = FALSE,
  italic = FALSE,
  monospace = FALSE,
  underline = FALSE,
  strikeout = FALSE,
  color = NULL,
  background = NULL,
  fontsize = NULL,
  align = NULL,
  alignv = NULL,
  colspan = NULL,
  rowspan = NULL,
  indent = NULL,
  line = NULL,
  line_color = "black",
  line_width = 0.1,
  finalize = NULL,
  tabularray_inner = NULL,
  tabularray_outer = NULL,
  bootstrap_class = NULL,
  bootstrap_css = NULL,
  bootstrap_css_rule = NULL,
  output = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

x	A table object created by tt().
i	Numeric vector, logical matrix, or string.. Numeric vector: Row indices where the styling should be applied. Can be a single value or a vector. Logical matrix: A matrix with the same number of rows and columns as x. i=0 is the header, and negative values are higher level headers. Row indices refer to rows after the insertion of row labels by group_tt(), when applicable. String: "notes" or "caption".
j	Column indices where the styling should be applied. Can be: Integer vectors indicating column positions. Character vector indicating column names. A single string specifying a Perl-style regular expression used to match column names.
bold	Logical; if TRUE, text is styled in bold.
italic	Logical; if TRUE, text is styled in italic.
monospace	Logical; if TRUE, text is styled in monospace font.
underline	Logical; if TRUE, text is underlined.
strikeout	Logical; if TRUE, text has a strike through line.
color	Text color. There are several ways to specify colors, depending on the output format. HTML: Hex code composed of # and 6 characters, ex: #CC79A7. Keywords: black, silver, gray, white, maroon, red, purple, fuchsia, green, lime, olive, yellow, navy, blue, teal, aqua LaTeX: Hex code composed of # and 6 characters, ex: "#CC79A7". See the section below for instructions to add in LaTeX preambles. Keywords: black, blue, brown, cyan, darkgray, gray, green, lightgray, lime, magenta, olive, orange, pink, purple, red, teal, violet, white, yellow. Color blending using xcolor⁠, ex: ⁠white!80!blue⁠, ⁠green!20!red'. Color names with luminance levels from the ninecolors package (ex: "azure4", "magenta8", "teal2", "gray1", "olive3").
background	Background color. Specified as a color name or hexadecimal code. Can be NULL for default color.
fontsize	Font size in em units. Can be NULL for default size.
align	A single character or a string with a number of characters equal to the number of columns in j. Valid characters include 'c' (center), 'l' (left), 'r' (right), 'd' (decimal). Decimal alignment is only available in LaTeX via the siunitx package. The width of columns is determined by the maximum number of digits to the left and to the right in all cells specified by i and j.
alignv	A single character specifying vertical alignment. Valid characters include 't' (top), 'm' (middle), 'b' (bottom).
colspan	Number of columns a cell should span. i and j must be of length 1.
rowspan	Number of rows a cell should span. i and j must be of length 1.
indent	Text indentation in em units. Positive values only.
line	String determines if solid lines (rules or borders) should be drawn around the cell, row, or column. "t": top "b": bottom "l": left "r": right Can be combined such as: "lbt" to draw borders at the left, bottom, and top.
line_color	Color of the line. See the color argument for details.
line_width	Width of the line in em units (default: 0.1).
finalize	A function applied to the table object at the very end of table-building, for post-processing. For example, the function could use regular expressions to add LaTeX commands to the text version of the table hosted in x@table_string, or it could programmatically change the caption in x@caption.
tabularray_inner	A string that specifies the "inner" settings of a tabularray LaTeX table.
tabularray_outer	A string that specifies the "outer" settings of a tabularray LaTeX table.
bootstrap_class	String. Bootstrap table class such as "table", "table table-dark" or "table table-dark table-hover". See the bootstrap documentation.
bootstrap_css	Character vector. CSS style declarations to be applied to every cell defined by i and j (ex: "font-weight: bold").
bootstrap_css_rule	String. Complete CSS rules (with curly braces, semicolon, etc.) that apply to the table class specified by the bootstrap_class argument.
output	Apply style only to the output format specified by this argument. NULL means that we apply to all formats.
...	extra arguments are ignored

Details

This function applies styling to a table created by tt(). It allows customization of text style (bold, italic, monospace), text and background colors, font size, cell width, text alignment, column span, and indentation. The function also supports passing native instructions to LaTeX (tabularray) and HTML (bootstrap) formats.

Value

An object of class tt representing the table.

Word and Markdown limitations

Markdown and Word tables only support these styles: italic, bold, strikeout. The width argument is also unavailable Moreover, the style_tt() function cannot be used to style headers inserted by the group_tt() function; instead, you should style the headers directly in the header definition using markdown syntax: group_tt(i = list("*italic header*" = 2)). These limitations are due to the fact that there is no markdown syntax for the other options, and that we create Word documents by converting a markdown table to .docx via the Pandoc software.

Examples

if (knitr::is_html_output()) options(tinytable_print_output = "html")

library(tinytable)

tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6])

# Alignment
tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6]) |>
  style_tt(j = 1:5, align = "lcccr")

# Colors and styles
tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6]) |>
  style_tt(i = 2:3, background = "black", color = "orange", bold = TRUE)

# column selection with `j``
tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6]) |>
  style_tt(j = 5:6, background = "pink")

tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6]) |>
  style_tt(j = "drat|wt", background = "pink")

tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6]) |>
  style_tt(j = c("drat", "wt"), background = "pink")

tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6], theme = "void") |>
  style_tt(
    i = 2, j = 2,
    colspan = 3,
    rowspan = 2,
    align = "c",
    alignv = "m",
    color = "white",
    background = "black",
    bold = TRUE)

tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6], theme = "void") |>
  style_tt(
    i = 0:3,
    j = 1:3,
    line = "tblr",
    line_width = 0.4,
    line_color = "teal")

tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6], theme = "bootstrap") |>
  style_tt(
    i = c(2, 5),
    j = 3,
    strikeout = TRUE,
    fontsize = 0.7)

tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:6]) |>
  style_tt(bootstrap_class = "table table-dark table-hover")


inner <- "
column{1-4}={halign=c},
hlines = {fg=white},
vlines = {fg=white},
cell{1,6}{odd} = {bg=teal7},
cell{1,6}{even} = {bg=green7},
cell{2,4}{1,4} = {bg=red7},
cell{3,5}{1,4} = {bg=purple7},
cell{2}{2} = {r=4,c=2}{bg=azure7},
"
tt(mtcars[1:5, 1:4], theme = "void") |>
  style_tt(tabularray_inner = inner)

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