Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

ftExtra 0.1.0 Unreleased

• Support markdown footnote with colformat_md. Currently, one footnote per a cell is allowed, and it must be located at the end of the cell content (#22).
• Add footnote_options() to configure options for footnotes (#23).
• Support formatting markdown texts on header with colformat_md(part = "header") (#23).
• Support single- and double-quotes by a lua filter (dfc82e0).
• Support attributes with Span, Link, and Code. Useful attributes include the .underline class and the color, shading.color, and font.family attributes (#24).
• Support inline code (#25).
• Add the md_extensions and pandoc_args arguments to colformat_md() and as_paragraph_md() (#26, #29).
• Support citation. Bibliography can be inherited from YAML front matter of an Rmd file (#27, #29).
• Support math on macOS and Linux (#30), and on Windows (#31).
• Fix character corruptions on Windows by forcing UTF8 (#31).
• Use pandoc citeproc when YAML frontmatter contains the bibliography field (#31).

ftExtra 0.0.3 2020-08-30

• Patched to pass “CRAN Package Check Results for Package” where r-patched-solaris-x86 fails because of missing pandoc.

ftExtra 0.0.2 2020-08-29

New features

• Markdown parser
  • supports more syntax
    • Links
    • Inline images
    • Soft line breaks
    • Hard line breaks (e.g., colformat_md(as_flextable(data.frame('a\\\nb', stringsAsFactors = FALSE)))).
  • stops with error if there are multiple paragraphs or block elements other than the paragraph.
• colformat_md()
  • controls colors of links for example by colformat_md(auto_color_link = 'red').
  • gains .from argument to specify Pandoc’s --from argument.
  • gains j argument so that users can choose which columns to be treated as markdown based on dplyr::select()’s semantics.
• Add as_paragraph_md which parses markdown texts on selected cells rather than selected columns. Use this function within flextable::compose.

ftExtra 0.0.1 2020-03-20

• Add colformat_md() which parses markdown text in the body of the flextable object.
• Add separate_header() which separates header into multiple rows based on regular expression.
• Add span_header() which separates header into multiple rows based on regular expression, and spans them if the adjacent values share the same value.
• Add with_blanks() which inserts blank columns based on the semantics of dplyr::select.
• Add as_flextable.data.frame to convert data frames to flextable.
• Add as_flextable.grouped_df to convert grouped data frames to flextable.