htmlwidgets News This Week

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This Week’s Widget - formattable

This week’s widget formattable is unique from all of the other widgets so far. One of my favorite R developers @renkun-ken (also created rlist and pipeR) made this really nice package formattable to add styling and Excel-like conditional formatting to tables in Rmarkdown. However, its design limited its use to Rmd contexts. Of course, the magic of htmlwidgets can solve this, so we created a new function as.htmlwidget to convert formattable objects and added some logic to auto-convert. Kun Ren deserves all the credit for the awesomeness of formattable. I simply assisted in the htmlwidget conversion and testing.

Quick Installation

formattable is not yet on CRAN, so for now please install with devtools::install_github.

# should move to master soon
devtools::install_github("renkun-ken/formattable")

Vignette

I tried to discuss in the vignette added to the package. I’ll embed it as an iframe below.

Thanks

Thanks so much

• @renkun-ken for formattable, rlist, and pipeR
• authors of markdown
• Yihui Xie for knitr
• Ramnath Vaidyanathan and RStudio for htmlwidgets
• all the contributors to R and JavaScript