How to Add Row Spans to a CreateCustomTable R Table

Introduction

This article describes how to go from a standard table...

...to an CreateCustomTable R table (similar to a table with Autofit checked)  with span row labels:

Requirements

A table.

Method

1. Select your table.

2. Copy the name from Properties > GENERAL > Name.

3. Go to Calculation > Custom Code.

4. Paste the below under Properties > R CODE:

#identify mytable
mytable = table.Income
#create list of row spans
rowspans = list(list(height=2,label="Low Income"),
list(height=3,label="Med Income"),
list(height=4,label="High Income"),
list(height=1,label=" "))
#create custom table
flipFormat::CreateCustomTable(mytable,
row.spans=rowspans,
border.color = "black")

• The above code defines the table using the reference name from step 2.
• Next, we create a list of the span labels where the height represents the number of rows the span should cover and the label is what should appear within the span.
• Finally, we use our CreateCustomTable function from the flipFormat R package and parse rowspans into the row.spans argument.

5. OPTIONAL: Add other arguments to CreateCustomTable to set fill colors, padding and font styles.

See Also

CreateCustomTable