The gtExtras package in R is an
extension of the gt package who
provides lots of useful and easy-to-use functions that make gt tables
even better!
This post showcases the key features
of gtExtras and provides a set of table
examples using the package.
{gtExtras}
The gtExtras package in R is an extension of the gt package,
designed to extend what can be done with gt with more than
60 new functions and features.
It offers several table themes, tools for
plotting inside a table and other features such as
color gradients for columns and rows. In total, it’s
more than 60 functions that gtExtras has
to offer!
✍️ author → Thomas Mock
📘 documentation → github
⭐️ more than 100 stars on github
To get started with gtExtras, you can install it
directly from CRAN using the install.packages function:
The gtExtras package relies on the gt package, which
means that we need to use the gt() function:
| Sepal.Length | Sepal.Width | Petal.Length | Petal.Width | Species |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.9 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.7 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.6 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 5.0 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 5.4 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 0.4 | setosa |
gtExtras offers a wide variety of
themes that require just one line of code to use:
Example:
| Sepal.Length | Sepal.Width | Petal.Length | Petal.Width | Species |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.9 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.7 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.6 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 5.0 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 5.4 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 0.4 | setosa |
You can use a color palette for your cells with the
gt_color_rows() function, and even choose palette from
other package like in the following example.
In the palette argument, you can also specify a vector
of colors and it will automatically generate the
palette. For example palette=c("blue", "red") will
generate a palette starting from blue to red.
Warning: if you select a non-numerical column in
gt_color_rows(), an error will occur, as it is impossible
to define which color level to choose for a categorical value.
Example:
library(gtExtras)
head(iris) %>%
gt() %>%
gt_color_rows(
1:4, # column 1,2,3 and 4
palette = "RColorBrewer::Spectral"
)| Sepal.Length | Sepal.Width | Petal.Length | Petal.Width | Species |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.9 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.7 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.6 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 5.0 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 5.4 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 0.4 | setosa |
The gt_highlight_rows() function allows to
highlight specific rows with a background color and by
putting text in bold.
Example:
library(gtExtras)
head(iris, 6) %>%
gt() %>%
gt_highlight_rows(
rows = c(1, 4), # rows to highlight
target_col = 3, # which column to focus on
bold_target_only = TRUE, # highlight target column
fill='darkred', # background color
font_color = "#000051", # text color,
alpha=0.5, # controls color opacity
)| Sepal.Length | Sepal.Width | Petal.Length | Petal.Width | Species |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.9 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.7 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 4.6 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 5.0 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.2 | setosa |
| 5.4 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 0.4 | setosa |
gtExtras has multiple functions for plotting inside
cells: gt_plt_sparkline() for a line chart,
gt_plt_dist() for distribution charts (density, boxplot,
histogram) and lots of other!
Example with gt_plt_dist():
library(gtExtras)
library(dplyr)
iris %>%
group_by(Species) %>%
summarize(SL_data = list(Sepal.Length)) %>%
gt() %>%
gt_plt_dist(SL_data)| Species | SL_data |
|---|---|
| setosa | |
| versicolor | |
| virginica |
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