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highlight

Text Highlight Color


Description

change text highlight color of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

Usage

highlight(x, i = NULL, j = NULL, color = "yellow", part = "body", source = j)

Arguments

x

a flextable object

i

rows selection

j

columns selection

color

color to use as text highlighting color. If a function, function need to return a character vector of colors.

part

partname of the table (one of 'all', 'body', 'header', 'footer')

source

if color is a function, source is specifying the dataset column to be used as argument to color. This is only useful if j is colored with values contained in another (or other) column.

Illustrations

See Also

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

Examples

my_color_fun <- function(x){
  out <- rep("yellow", length(x))
  out[x < quantile(x, .75)] <- "pink"
  out[x < quantile(x, .50)] <- "wheat"
  out[x < quantile(x, .25)] <- "gray90"
  out
}
ft <- flextable(head( mtcars, n = 10))
ft <- highlight(ft, j = "disp", i = ~ disp > 200, color = "yellow")
ft <- highlight(ft, j = ~ drat + wt + qsec, color = my_color_fun)
ft

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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