Set font color
change font color of selected rows and columns of a flextable.
color(x, i = NULL, j = NULL, color, part = "body", source = j)
x |
a flextable object |
i |
rows selection |
j |
columns selection |
color |
color to use as font color. If a function, function need to return a character vector of colors. |
part |
partname of the table (one of 'all', 'body', 'header', 'footer') |
source |
if bg is a function, source is specifying the dataset column to be used
as argument to |


ft <- flextable(head(mtcars))
ft <- color(ft, color = "orange", part = "header")
ft <- color(ft, color = "red",
i = ~ qsec < 18 & vs < 1 )
ft
if(require("scales")){
scale <- scales::col_numeric(domain= c(-1, 1), palette ="RdBu")
x <- as.data.frame(cor(iris[-5]))
x <- cbind(
data.frame(colname = colnames(x),
stringsAsFactors = FALSE),
x)
ft_2 <- flextable(x)
ft_2 <- color(ft_2, j = x$colname, color = scale)
ft_2 <- set_formatter_type(ft_2)
ft_2
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