tab_settings {flextable}

Set tabulation marks configuration

Description

Define tabulation marks configuration. Specifying positions and types of tabulation marks in table paragraphs helps to organize the content, especially in clinical tables by aligning numbers properly.

Usage

tab_settings(x, i = NULL, j = NULL, value = TRUE, part = "body")

Arguments

x

a flextable object

i

rows selection

j

columns selection

value

an object of generated by officer::fp_tabs().

part

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

See Also

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

Examples

library(officer)
library(flextable)

z <- data.frame(
  Statistic = c("Median (Q1 ; Q3)", "Min ; Max"),
  Value = c(
    "\t999.99\t(99.9 ; 99.9)",
    "\t9.99\t(9999.9 ; 99.9)"
  )
)

ts <- fp_tabs(
  fp_tab(pos = 0.4, style = "decimal"),
  fp_tab(pos = 1.4, style = "decimal")
)

zz <- flextable(z) |>
  tab_settings(j = 2, value = ts) |>
  width(width = c(1.5, 2))


save_as_docx(zz, path = tempfile(fileext = ".docx"))