Set paragraph paddings

change paddings of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

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

Arguments

x

a flextable object

i

rows selection

j

columns selection

padding

padding (shortcut for top, bottom, left and right), unit is pts (points).

padding.top

padding top, unit is pts (points).

padding.bottom

padding bottom, unit is pts (points).

padding.left

padding left, unit is pts (points).

padding.right

padding right, unit is pts (points).

part

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

Note

Padding is not implemented in PDF due to technical infeasibility but it can be replaced with set_table_properties(opts_pdf = list(tabcolsep = 1)).

See also

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

Examples

ft_1 <- flextable(head(iris))
ft_1 <- theme_vader(ft_1)
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, padding.top = 4, part = "all")
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, j = 1, padding.right = 40)
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, i = 3, padding.top = 40)
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, padding.top = 10, part = "header")
ft_1 <- padding(ft_1, padding.bottom = 10, part = "header")
ft_1 <- autofit(ft_1)
ft_1
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