border {flextable}R Documentation

Cell borders update

Description

change borders of selected rows and columns of a flextable. This function is not to be used by end user (it requires careful settings to avoid overlapping borders) but only for programming purposes.

If you need to add borders, use instead other functions:

These set borders for the whole table : border_outer(), border_inner_h() and border_inner_v().

To add horizontal or vertical lines in the table at specific location, use:

To add following horizontal or vertical lines at beginning or end of the table, use:

If you want to highlight specific cells with some borders, use surround().

Usage

border(
  x,
  i = NULL,
  j = NULL,
  border = NULL,
  border.top = NULL,
  border.bottom = NULL,
  border.left = NULL,
  border.right = NULL,
  part = "body"
)

Arguments

x

a flextable object

i

rows selection

j

columns selection

border

border (shortcut for top, bottom, left and right)

border.top

border top

border.bottom

border bottom

border.left

border left

border.right

border right

part

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

Note

pdf and pptx outputs do not support border() usage.

Examples

library(officer)
ftab <- flextable(head(mtcars))
ftab <- border(ftab, border.top = fp_border(color = "orange"))
ftab

[Package flextable version 0.9.9 Index]