alignment of a flextable on the page when rendering R Markdown to MS Word

Question

I've been having great luck with customizing flextable tables in my R Markdown documents. However, I am struggling to change the location of a table on the page. It seems the tables are centered on the page by default. I'd like one of my tables aligned to the left margin. How do I do that?

I know nothing of this, but `body_add_flextable()` has an `align=` argument. Does that work? — thelatemail, Sep 17 '18 at 22:00
Unfortunately, no. `body_add_flextable` is not designed to be used inside an R Markdown document (as far as I can tell). — JD Long, Sep 18 '18 at 10:21
@JDLong I have just added that functionality (in the github repo), add `ft.align="left"` in the chunk option part and voilà! — David Gohel, Sep 18 '18 at 14:46
brilliant @DavidGohel! would you mind making that an answer so I can accept it? — JD Long, Sep 18 '18 at 15:28
@DavidGohel Is it possible to also add a similar functionality in `save_as_docx`? I usually have a list of flextables and want to save them directly in a .docx file. The resulting docx file has all tables centered — Lefkios Paikousis, Feb 23 '20 at 15:59

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '18 at 15:50

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I have just added an option to enable that. Now you can use chunk option ft.align

---
output: word_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```


```{r ft.align="left"}
library(flextable)
regulartable(cars)
```

answered Sep 18 '18 at 15:50

David Gohel

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This solution doesn't seem to work for html output. Is there a way to align flextables on the left site in html? – jhvdz May 19 '19 at 15:42
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no, it does apply to word but i can extend that to html, no problem – David Gohel May 20 '19 at 14:04
I would very much appreciate that, thanks in advance. – jhvdz May 21 '19 at 10:40
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@jhvdz this is now implemented with html output, you need to update the package from github to try it (it will go on cran later) – David Gohel May 22 '19 at 15:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 14 '19 at 21:47

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I ran into the same problem and the solution worked just fine after updating "flextable" from 0.5.4 and 0.5.5 to get this to work.

answered Aug 14 '19 at 21:47

Lionel Duarte

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alignment of a flextable on the page when rendering R Markdown to MS Word

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