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empty_blanks

make blank columns as transparent

Description

blank columns are set as transparent. This is a shortcut function that will delete top and bottom borders, change background color to transparent and display empty content.

Usage

empty_blanks(x)

Arguments

x

a flextable object

See Also

Other sugar functions for table style: align(), bg(), bold(), color(), fontsize(), font(), highlight(), italic(), line_spacing(), padding(), rotate(), valign()

Examples

typology <- data.frame(
  col_keys = c( "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width", "Petal.Length",
                "Petal.Width", "Species" ),
  what = c("Sepal", "Sepal", "Petal", "Petal", " "),
  measure = c("Length", "Width", "Length", "Width", "Species"),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE )
typology

ftab <- flextable(head(iris), col_keys = c("Species",
  "break1", "Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width",
  "break2", "Petal.Length", "Petal.Width") )
ftab <- set_header_df(ftab, mapping = typology, key = "col_keys" )
ftab <- merge_h(ftab, part = "header")
ftab <- theme_vanilla(ftab)
ftab <- empty_blanks(ftab)
ftab <- width(ftab, j = c(2, 5), width = .1 )
ftab
flextable

Functions for Tabular Reporting

v0.6.10
GPL-3
Authors
David Gohel [aut, cre], Clementine Jager [ctb], Quentin Fazilleau [ctb], Maxim Nazarov [ctb] (rmarkdown for docx output), Titouan Robert [ctb], Michael Barrowman [ctb] (inline footnotes), Atsushi Yasumoto [ctb] (support for bookdown cross reference), Paul Julian [ctb] (support for gam objects)
Initial release

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