rtables.officer

Exporting rtables to Microsoft Word and beyond

The rtables.officer package provides a framework to export tables created with rtables to Microsoft Word documents. To do so, we use the officer package to create a Word document and the flextable package to produce the intermediary table object that officer can use to create the Word document.

Please refer to the following packages for further information: - rtables to create tables. - flextable as an intermediate html table object. Many aesthetic functionalities are available at this stage. - officer to create Word documents. Please consider also other exporter options (e.g. html) that are available from flextable.

rtables and rtables.officer is developed and copy written by F. Hoffmann-La Roche and it is released open source under Apache License Version 2.

Installation

rtables.officer is available on CRAN and you can install the latest released version with:

install.packages("rtables.officer")

or you can install the latest development version directly from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("insightsengineering/rtables.officer")

Example

Here’s a simple example demonstrating how to create a basic table layout, perform analysis on various columns, and export the resultant table to a Word document in landscape orientation. Further reading are available in the vignettes.

# Define the table layout
lyt <- basic_table() %>%
  split_cols_by("ARM") %>%
  analyze(c("AGE", "BMRKR2", "COUNTRY"))

# Build the table
tbl <- build_table(lyt, ex_adsl)

# Export the table to a Word document in landscape orientation
tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".docx")
export_as_docx(tbl,
  file = tf,
  section_properties = section_properties_default(orientation = "landscape")
)

# Expected output (with default theme)
tt_to_flextable(tbl, theme = theme_docx_default())

Contributions

To contribute to this package, please fork the repository, create a branch, make your changes, and submit a pull request. Your contributions are greatly appreciated!