The cells_column_spanners() function is used to target the cells that contain the table column spanners. This is useful when applying a footnote with tab_footnote() or adding custom style with tab_style(). The function is expressly used in each of those functions' locations argument.

cells_column_spanners(spanners)

Arguments

spanners

The names of the spanners that are to be targeted.

Value

A list object with the classes cells_column_spanners and location_cells.

Details

When using any of the location helper functions with an appropriate function that has a locations argument, multiple locations can be targeted by enclosing several cells_*() helper functions in a list(). The following helper functions can be used to target cells (roughly in order from the top to the bottom of a table):

  • cells_title(): targets the table title or the table subtitle depending on the value given to the groups argument ("title" or "subtitle").

  • cells_stubhead(): targets the stubhead location, a cell of which is only available when there is a stub; a label in that location can be created by using the tab_stubhead() function.

  • cells_column_spanners(): targets the spanner column labels, which appear above the column labels.

  • cells_column_labels(): targets the column labels.

  • cells_row_groups(): targets the row group labels in any available row groups using the groups argument.

  • cells_stub(): targets row labels in the table stub using the rows argument.

  • cells_body(): targets data cells in the table body using intersections of columns and rows.

  • cells_summary(): targets summary cells in the table body using the groups argument and intersections of columns and rows.

  • cells_grand_summary(): targets cells of the table's grand summary using intersections of columns and rows

Figures

Function ID

7-7

See also

Examples

# Use `exibble` to create a gt table; add a # spanner column label over three column # labels and then use `tab_style()` to make # the spanner label text bold tab_1 <- exibble %>% dplyr::select(-fctr, -currency, -group) %>% gt(rowname_col = "row") %>% tab_spanner( label = "dates and times", columns = vars(date, time, datetime) ) %>% tab_style( style = cell_text(weight = "bold"), locations = cells_column_spanners(spanners = "dates and times") )