annotate_mf: Annotate meaningful formatting

In unheadr: Handle Data with Messy Header Rows and Broken Values

Annotate meaningful formatting

Description

Turns cell formatting into annotations for values in the target row.

Usage

annotate_mf(xlfilepath, orig, new)

Arguments

xlfilepath	Path to a single-sheet spreadsheet file (xls or xlsx).
orig	Variable to annotate formatting in.
new	Name of new variable with cell formatting pasted as a string.

Details

At this point, seven popular approaches for meaningful formatting (bold, colored text, italic, strikethrough, underline, double underline, and cell highlighting) are hardcoded in the function. sheets, skip, and range arguments for spreadsheet input are not supported. The hex8 code of the fill color used for text color and cell highlighting is also appended in the output. Ensure the data in the spreadsheet are rectangular before running.

Value

A tibble with a new column with meaningful formatting embedded as text.

Examples

example_spreadsheet <- system.file("extdata/dog_test.xlsx", package = "unheadr")
annotate_mf(example_spreadsheet, orig = Task, new = Task_annotated)

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