Extensions for 'Flextable'

Build display tables easily by extending the functionality of the 'flextable' package. Features include spanning header, grouping rows, parsing markdown and so on.

ftExtra

The ftExtra package provides helper functions for the flextable package:

• colformat_md parses markdown texts in columns
• span_header makes multi-level headers
• and more!

Installation

from CRAN

install.packages("ftExtra")

from GitHub

options(repos = c(atusy = 'https://atusy.r-universe.dev', getOption("repos")))
install.packages("ftExtra")

Example

library(ftExtra)

Parse markdown texts

data.frame(
  x = c("**bold**", "*italic*"),
  y = c("^superscript^", "~subscript~"),
  z = c("***~ft~^Extra^** is*", "*Cool*"),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
) %>%
  flextable() %>%
  colformat_md()

Span headers

iris %>%
  head %>%
  flextable() %>%
  span_header()

Group rows

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
iris %>%
  group_by(Species) %>%
  slice(1:2) %>%
  flextable()