flextable 0.7.0

new features

• new function append_chunks() to append chunks of content in flextable cells as with as_paragraph() but without replacing the whole content.
• new function tabulator() and its method as_flextable.tabulator() that help the creation of tables used in life science industry. It also comes with function summarizor() and sugar function fmt_2stats().
• empty_blanks() gained arguments width so that users can also set blank columns’ width.
• pass ... to format() function when using colformat_num(). It makes possible to use arguments for format(), for example colformat_num(drop0trailing = TRUE).
• add knitr chunk option ft.keepnext and parameter keepnext to function body_add_flextable() that enable the Word option ‘keep rows together’, so that page break within a table is avoided when possible.
• new function add_latex_dep() to manually add flextable latex dependencies to the knitr session.

Issues

• fix Rd files which when converted to HTML had <img> entries with invalid width attributes e.g. width=40\%.

Changes

• In a bookdown context and without package officedown, it is not possible to keep the cross-references as they are provided by bookdown and to provide a real Word cross-reference on table captions (the reference number only is displayed). That’s why when using bookdown without package officedown : 1. Word auto-numbering is desactivated and 2. caption prefix formatting feature.

flextable 0.6.10

new features

• add function df_printer that can be used via the df_print option of R Markdown documents or by calling use_df_printer().
• add support to knitr table options tab.cap.fp_text to let format caption prefix in function opts_current_table().
• Applies existing formatting properties to new header/footer lines

Issues

• fix convertion when unit = “mm”
• fix regression with captions when bookdown generate a ‘Word’ document #354
• fix highlight for PowerPoint

Enhancement

• Theme functions behavior is now more detailed in the manual.

flextable 0.6.9

new features

• add “nan” option in formatting functions
  colformat_* and set_flextable_defaults.
• new function surround() to ease the highlighting of specific cells with borders.
• add “pdf” option for previewing a flextable in PDF with print(x, preview ="pdf").

Issues

• fix width with border overlaps in pdf
• chunks are now ordered as expected in pdf
• markdown can be used in table captions in R Markdown documents

flextable 0.6.8

Issues

• fix issue with border spaces and widths in HTML output. #343
• fix tests obfuscations with “pandoc-citeproc” that was not necessary.

flextable 0.6.7

new features

• tab.lp is now a knitr supported chunk option and can be use to change the label prefix for the table sequence id when a caption is used. See https://github.com/davidgohel/officedown/issues/71.
• support for tab.topcaption that let modify the table caption position from “top” (TRUE) to “bottom” (FALSE).
• add helper function before() to ease addition of hline() before some values to match with.

Issues

• fix issue with white spaces instead of empty borders in HTML output
• fix issue with missing top or right border in LaTeX output (thanks to huaixv for the fix)
• Table cells containing square braces were causing errors (thanks to Nick Bart for the fix)
• fix proc_freq error when include.row_percent, include.table_percent and include.column_percent are all set to FALSE.

flextable 0.6.6

new features

• add argument ft.shadow = TRUE to htmltools_value so that shadow dom can not be used.
• add arguments “cs.family”, “hansi.family” and “eastasia.family” to fontname.
• add “line_spacing” to defaults formatting properties (see set_flextable_defaults(line_spacing=1))

Issues

• fix issue with spaces in latex - see #314
• fix issue with powerpoint hyperlinks - see #310
• fix issue with conditional color with scale - see #309

flextable 0.6.5

new features

• add function as_equation for ‘MathJax’ equations.
• add argument text_after to function flextable_to_rmd to let append any text to the produced flextable.

flextable 0.6.4

new features

• export of chunk_dataframe for those who want to create functions that work with as_paragraph.
• in R Markdown for Word, bookmarks are now added to captions when output format is from bookdown
• shadow hosts HTML elements get the class flextable-shadow-host.
• set_flextable_defaults now accept argument padding that set values for padding top, bottom, left and right.
• new functions colorize, as_highlight
• functions nrow_part and ncol_keys are now exported

Issues

• fix for minibar when all values are equal to zero (thanks to Martin Durian)
• fix URLs formatted incorrectly in Word and PowerPoint (thanks to David Czihak)

flextable 0.6.3

new features

• compose has a new argument use_dot to let use . and loop over columns
• new function init_flextable_defaults()
• inst/mediasrc/man-figures.R can also be used for visual testing with git diff

Issues

• fix line spacing with pdf output
• Now colformat_num calls the format function on the numeric values (integer and float) which are therefore displayed as in console R. This function is used during the creation of a flextable so that by default the content of the cells is the same as that displayed in console R.

flextable 0.6.2

changes

• new documentation! See at https://ardata-fr.github.io/flextable-book/

new features

• merge_v has a new argument combine to let use j columns be used as a single value (all values are pasted).
• new function add_body for adding rows into a flextable body
• new function colformat_image for images in flextable
• new method as_flextable for gam models
• function set_flextable_defaults gained 4 new arguments post_process_pdf, post_process_html, post_process_docx and post_process_pptx to enable flextable post-treatments conditionned by the output format.
• new helper functions fp_text_default and fp_border_default.

Issues

• fix encoding issue with Windows platforms
• bring back caption into the table
• fix overlapping issue with hline_top #244
• fix \n and \t usage for pdf

flextable 0.6.1

new features

• HTML flextable are now isolated from the document CSS (except caption which is copied before).

Issues

• correction of latex tables which resulted in a centering of the following text.
• minor correction for density graphs inserted in tables
• fix suffix/prefix usage in colformat_* functions

changes

• drop defunct functions.

flextable 0.6.0

new features

• flextable now supports PDF/latex output format.
• new function highlight() for text highlighting color
• new function set_flextable_defaults() to set some default formatting properties, i.e. default border color, font color, padding, decimal.mark …
• save_as_docx gained a new argument pr_section to define page layout with section properties, save_as_html can now output more than a single table.
• colformat_ functions now use default values and filter columns that are irrelevant (i.e. if colformat_num, only numeric values are formatted). Also, new colformat_ functions have been implemented (colformat_date, colformat_datetime and colformat_double).
• new functions plot_chunk and gg_chunk to add miniplots or ggplots into a flextable

changes

• defunct of ph_with_flextable()
• use pandoc’s raw attribute when possible within “R Markdown” documents.

Issues

• fix bug in HTML output with invalid css when locale makes decimal separator not .
• fix_border_issues is the last instruction of all theme functions so that borders are corrected if some cells have been merged.
• caption was always printed in bookdown and now it’s conditionned by testing if tab_props$cap has a value.
• fix missing tfoot tag in HTML output

flextable 0.5.11

Changes

• HTML code is now minimized as CSS styles are now used instead of inline CSS.

new features

• save_as_html now accepts argument encoding
• line spacing (for Word and PowerPoint) or line height (for HTML) can now be defined with function line_spacing() (or with function style()).

Issues

• selection when i or j was integer(0) was resulting to all rows, it’s now fixed. To select all rows or columns, use i = NULL or j = NULL, to select none, i = integer(0) or j = integer(0).
• tab were not displayed when output was HTML

flextable 0.5.10

new features

• flextable captions in Word can be auto-numbered and bookmarked
• function footnote is now able to add inline footnotes
• support for bookdown references
• new as_flextable methods for lm and glm objects and xtable (replacing xtable_to_flextable())
• new sugar function continuous_summary(): summarize continuous columns in a flextable
• function autofit can now use only some parts of the tables. This allows for example to no longer have gigantic columns by not taking into account the “footer” part that is often composed of long texts.
• bookdown and xaringan HTML outputs should now be rendered as expected - table css has been overwritten.
• new function set_table_properties lets adapt flextable size as “100%”, “50%” of the available width for Word and HTML.

Changes

• manual pages have been improved and illustrations are added
• bg() and color() now accept functions (i.e. scales::col_numeric())

flextable 0.5.9

Changes

• defunct of display()
• rename arg ‘formater’ to ‘formatter’ of as_chunk (#152)

Internal

• drop officer::fp_sign importation that was not used anymore so that officer can drop digest dependency.

flextable 0.5.8

Changes

• deprecation of display().
• defunct of ph_with_flextable_at()
• function docx_value() has new arguments ft.align, ft.split and tab.cap.style
• function htmltools_value() has a new argument ft.align

new features

• new function flextable_html_dependency to get flextable htmltools::htmlDependancy. This is necessary to output flextables in html R Markdown documents from loop or other nested operations.

Issues

• fix issue #188, add_rows error that came with version 0.5.7

flextable 0.5.7

new features

• new suger functions save_as_docx, save_as_pptx that lets users export flextable objects to PowerPoint or Word documents.

Changes

• merge_v can use hidden columns.
• new function hrule to control how row heights should be understood (at least, auto, exact)
• Allow unused values in set_header_labels - PR #172 from DanChaltiel
• deprecation of ph_with_flextable_at, ph_with_flextable will be deprected in the next release

Issues

• fix issue #180, background color of runs transparency issue with googlesheet
• fix issue #157, issue with rotate and HTML output

flextable 0.5.6

Issues

• force officer >= 0.3.6
• fix rounding issue for css borders

flextable 0.5.6

new features

• new function lollipop that lets users add mini lollipop chart to flextable (kindly provided by github.com/pteridin)
• function proc_freq got a new argument weight to enable weighting of results.
• function as_flextable.grouped_data() has now an argument hide_grouplabel to let not print the group names.

Issues

• let footnotes symbols be affected by style functions (related to #137)
• enable usage of ‘webshot2’ instead of ‘webshot’. It enable better screenshots. It can be specified with argument webshot in function save_as_image or with chunk option webshot="webshot2".

flextable 0.5.5

new features

• new function docx_value to let display flextables from non top level calls inside R Markdown document.
• ph_with method for flextable object. This enable ph_location* usage and make placement into slides easier.
• new function fit_to_width to fit a flextable to a maximum width
• set_caption can now be used with R Markdown for Word document and caption style can be defined with chunk option tab.cap.style.

Issues

• fix issue with save_as_image with R for Windows

flextable 0.5.3

new features

• new functions to render flextable in plot (see plot), as an image (see save_as_image) and raster for ggplot2 (see as_raster).
• new function footnote to ease footnotes management
• colformat functions are suporting i argument now for rows selection.

flextable 0.5.2

new features

• new function valign to align vertically paragraphs in cell
• new function proc_freq that mimic SAS proc freq provided by Titouan Robert.
• new function linerange to produce mini lineranges.

Issues

• fix issue with set_footer_df

flextable 0.5.1

Issues

• fix issue with font colors in powerpoint
• fix issues with colors for Windows RStudio viewer

new features

• new themes functions theme_alafoli() and theme_vader()
• new functions align_text_col() and align_nottext_col() to align columns by data type
• new functions merge_h_range() to merge a set of columns row by row
• new functions fix_border_issues() fix issues with borders when cells are merged
• new functions add_header_row(), add_footer_row(), add_header_lines() and add_footer_lines() to add easily data in header or footer.
• new generic function as_flextable() to let develop new flextable functions
• new function as_grouped_data() and its method as_flextable() to create row titles to separate data in a flextable.

flextable 0.5.0

Improvement

• new arguments values for functions set_header_labels and set_formatter
• styles functions now support injection of more than a single value
• this version a big refactoring and got rid of R6

new features

• new function compose that will replace display
• new function set_caption only available for html output

flextable 0.4.7

new features

• knit_print() can be used with rmarkdown when rendering to PowerPoint.

Issues

• fix issue with regulartable and logical columns

flextable 0.4.6

new features

• a new helper function body_replace_flextable_at_bkm to replace a bookmarked paragraph by a flextable.
• new functions colformat_* to make content formatting easier. It also deals with NA.

Improvement

• Documentation format.flextable method so that users can create their components.
• new knitr chunk options ft.align to align tables in rmarkdown::word_document and ft.split to activate Word option ‘Allow row to break across pages’.

Issues

• fix issue (unordered and duplicated chunk of text) in function display()

flextable 0.4.5

Improvement

• flextable will not be split across rows at a page break in Word documents.

Issues

• fix border rendering with vline()
• empty data.frame are no more generating an error

flextable 0.4.4

new features

• Soft return \n is now supported. Function autofit and dim_pretty do not support soft returns and may return wrong results (will be considered as "").
• format function for flextable objects.

Issues

• fix border rendering with border_outer()

flextable 0.4.3

new features

• new functions: hyperlink_text() to be used with display, font()
• new functions hline*() and vline*() and many new helper functions to be used instead of borders.

Improvement

• manuals have been refactored

Issues

• fix display issue when a cell was containing NA

flextable 0.4.2

new features

• new function xtable_to_flextable() that is returning a flextable from an xtable object.
• function htmltools_value() is exported for shiny applications.

flextable 0.4.1

new features

• flextables have now a footer part

flextable 0.4.0

new features

• new function knit_print() to render flextable in rmarkdown.

Changes

• function tabwid() is deprecated in favor of a knit_print implementation.
• list of dependencies has been reduced.

flextable 0.3

new features

• new function regulartable, faster and simpler than flextable

Issues

• characters <, > and & are now html encoded
• fix columns widths when output format is HTML

flextable 0.2

new features

• new function ph_with_flextable_at to add a flextable at any position in a slide.
• new function merge_at is providing a general way of merging cells.
• new theme function: theme_box()

Changes

• function display() now works with a mustache template

Issues

• fix fontsize when part == “all”