NEWS

# flextable 0.5.10

## new features

* footnote is now able to add inline footnotes
* support for bookdown references
* new as_flextable methods for lm and glm objects and xtable (replacing `xtable_to_flextable()`)
* new sugar function `continuous_summary()`: summarize continuous columns in a flextable

## Changes

* manual pages have been improved and illustrations are added
* `bg()` and `color()` now accept functions (i.e. `scales::col_numeric()`)

# flextable 0.5.9

## Changes

* defunct of `display()`
* rename arg 'formater' to 'formatter' of `as_chunk` (#152)

## Internal

* drop `officer::fp_sign` importation that was not used anymore so that officer can
 drop digest dependency.


# flextable 0.5.8

## Changes

* deprecation of `display()`.
* defunct of `ph_with_flextable_at()`
* function `docx_value()` has new arguments `ft.align`, `ft.split` and `tab.cap.style`
* function `htmltools_value()` has a new argument `ft.align`

## new features

* new function `flextable_html_dependency` to get flextable htmltools::htmlDependancy. This is
necessary to output flextables in html R Markdown documents from loop or other nested operations.


## Issues

* fix issue #188, add_rows error that came with version 0.5.7


# flextable 0.5.7

## new features

* new suger functions `save_as_docx`, `save_as_pptx` that lets users export flextable objects
  to PowerPoint or Word documents.

## Changes

* merge_v can use hidden columns.
* new function `hrule` to control how row heights should be
  understood (at least, auto, exact)
* Allow unused values in set_header_labels - PR #172 from DanChaltiel
* deprecation of ph_with_flextable_at, ph_with_flextable will be deprected in the next release

## Issues

* fix issue #180, background color of runs transparency issue with googlesheet
* fix issue #157, issue with rotate and HTML output


# flextable 0.5.6

## Issues

* force officer >= 0.3.6
* fix rounding issue for css borders


# flextable 0.5.6

## new features

* new function `lollipop` that lets users add mini lollipop chart to flextable
  (kindly provided by github.com/pteridin)
* function `proc_freq` got a new argument `weight` to enable weighting of results.
* function `as_flextable.grouped_data()` has now an argument `hide_grouplabel` to
let not print the group names.

## Issues

* let footnotes symbols be affected by style functions (related to #137)
* enable usage of 'webshot2' instead of 'webshot'. It enable better screenshots. It
  can be specified with argument `webshot` in function `save_as_image` or with
  chunk option `webshot="webshot2"`.

# flextable 0.5.5

## new features

* new function `docx_value` to let display flextables from non top level
 calls inside R Markdown document.
* ph_with method for flextable object. This enable `ph_location*` usage
  and make placement into slides easier.
* new function `fit_to_width` to fit a flextable to a maximum width
* `set_caption` can now be used with R Markdown for Word document and caption
  style can be defined with chunk option `tab.cap.style`.

## Issues

* fix issue with `save_as_image` with R for Windows

# flextable 0.5.3

## new features

* new functions to render flextable in plot (see `plot`), as an image (see `save_as_image`)
  and raster for ggplot2 (see `as_raster`).
* new function `footnote` to ease footnotes management
* colformat functions are suporting i argument now for rows selection.

# flextable 0.5.2

## new features

* new function `valign` to align vertically paragraphs in cell
* new function `proc_freq` that mimic SAS proc freq provided by Titouan Robert.
* new function `linerange` to produce mini lineranges.

## Issues

* fix issue with `set_footer_df`

# flextable 0.5.1

## Issues

* fix issue with font colors in powerpoint
* fix issues with colors for Windows RStudio viewer


## new features

* new themes functions `theme_alafoli()` and `theme_vader()`
* new functions `align_text_col()` and `align_nottext_col()` to align
  columns by data type
* new functions `merge_h_range()` to merge a set of columns row by row
* new functions `fix_border_issues()` fix issues with borders when cells are merged
* new functions `add_header_row()`, `add_footer_row()`, `add_header_lines()`
 and `add_footer_lines()` to add easily data in header or footer.
* new generic function `as_flextable()` to let develop new flextable functions
* new function `as_grouped_data()` and its method `as_flextable()` to
  create row titles to separate data in a flextable.


# flextable 0.5.0

## Improvement

* new arguments `values` for functions `set_header_labels` and `set_formatter`
* styles functions now support injection of more than a single value
* this version a big refactoring and got rid of R6

## new features

* new function `compose` that will replace `display`
* new function `set_caption` only available for html output

# flextable 0.4.7

## new features

* `knit_print()` can be used with rmarkdown when rendering to PowerPoint.

## Issues

* fix issue with `regulartable` and logical columns

# flextable 0.4.6

## new features

* a new helper function `body_replace_flextable_at_bkm` to
  replace a bookmarked paragraph by a flextable.
* new functions `colformat_*` to make content formatting easier.
  It also deals with NA.

## Improvement

* Documentation `format.flextable` method so that users can create
  their components.
* new knitr chunk options `ft.align` to align tables in
  `rmarkdown::word_document` and `ft.split` to activate Word
  option 'Allow row to break across pages'.

## Issues

* fix issue (unordered and duplicated chunk of text) in function `display()`


# flextable 0.4.5

## Improvement

* flextable will not be split across rows at a page break in Word documents.

## Issues

* fix border rendering with `vline()`
* empty data.frame are no more generating an error

# flextable 0.4.4

## new features

* Soft return `\n` is now supported. Function `autofit` and `dim_pretty` do not
  support soft returns and may return wrong results (\n will be considered as "").
* format function for flextable objects.

## Issues

* fix border rendering with `border_outer()`


# flextable 0.4.3

## new features

* new functions: `hyperlink_text()` to be used with `display`, `font()`
* new functions `hline*()` and `vline*()` and many new helper functions
  to be used instead of borders.

## Improvement

* manuals have been refactored


## Issues

* fix display issue when a cell was containing NA


# flextable 0.4.2

## new features

* new function `xtable_to_flextable()` that is returning
  a flextable from an xtable object.
* function `htmltools_value()` is exported for shiny applications.

# flextable 0.4.1

## new features

* flextables have now a footer part


# flextable 0.4.0

## new features

* new function `knit_print()` to render flextable in rmarkdown.

## Changes

* function tabwid() is deprecated in favor of a knit_print implementation.
* list of dependencies has been reduced.

# flextable 0.3

## new features

* new function `regulartable`, faster and simpler than `flextable`

## Issues

* characters <, > and & are now html encoded
* fix columns widths when output format is HTML

# flextable 0.2

## new features

* new function `ph_with_flextable_at` to add a flextable at any position in a slide.
* new function `merge_at` is providing a general way of merging cells.
* new theme function: `theme_box()`

## Changes

* function display() now works with a mustache template

## Issues

* fix fontsize when part == "all"