Chapter 16 Known Issues

16.1 PDF issues

16.1.1 wrap text and merged cells

Text does not wrap when cells are merged vertically.

ft <- flextable(data.frame(
  a = c("blah","blah blah blah blah blah blah blah", "blah"),
  b = c("blah","blah", "blah")
  )
  )
ft <- merge_at(ft, i = 2:3, j = 1)
theme_box(ft)

16.2 compose in purrr and flextable

There is a name conflict between the package purrr and flextable with the function named compose. To resolve this, either you need to add the namespace in front of the name (flextable::compose), or you need to use the mk_par() function, which is simply another name of flextable::compose.