Set vertical alignment

change vertical alignment of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

valign(x, i = NULL, j = NULL, valign = "center", part = "body")

Arguments

x

a flextable object

i

rows selection

j

columns selection

valign

vertical alignment of paragraph within cell, one of "center" or "top" or "bottom".

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(), tab_settings()

Examples

ft_1 <- flextable(iris[c(1:3, 51:53, 101:103), ])
ft_1 <- theme_box(ft_1)
ft_1 <- merge_v(ft_1, j = 5)
ft_1
Sepal.Length
Sepal.Width
Petal.Length
Petal.Width
Species
5.1
3.5
1.4
0.2
setosa
4.9
3.0
1.4
0.2
4.7
3.2
1.3
0.2
7.0
3.2
4.7
1.4
versicolor
6.4
3.2
4.5
1.5
6.9
3.1
4.9
1.5
6.3
3.3
6.0
2.5
virginica
5.8
2.7
5.1
1.9
7.1
3.0
5.9
2.1

ft_2 <- valign(ft_1, j = 5, valign = "top", part = "all")
ft_2
Sepal.Length
Sepal.Width
Petal.Length
Petal.Width
Species
5.1
3.5
1.4
0.2
setosa
4.9
3.0
1.4
0.2
4.7
3.2
1.3
0.2
7.0
3.2
4.7
1.4
versicolor
6.4
3.2
4.5
1.5
6.9
3.1
4.9
1.5
6.3
3.3
6.0
2.5
virginica
5.8
2.7
5.1
1.9
7.1
3.0
5.9
2.1