allenzhuaz / r2rtf

Easily Create Production-Ready Rich Text Format (RTF) Table and Figure

r2rtf

Overview

r2rtf is an R package to create production-ready tables and figures in RTF format. The R package is designed to

• provide simple “verb” functions that correspond to each component of a table, to help you translate data frame(s) to a table in RTF file.
• enables pipes (%>%).
• only focus on table format.
  • Data manipulation and analysis shall be handled by other R packages. (e.g., tidyverse)
• minimizes package dependency

Installation

You can install the package via CRAN:

install.packages("r2rtf")

Or, install from GitHub:

remotes::install_github("Merck/r2rtf")

Highlighted Features

The R packager2rtf provided flexibility to enable features below:

• Necessary options to create highly customized RTF table and figure.
• Simple to use parameters and data structure.
  • Customized column header: split by "|".
  • Three required parameters for the output tables (data, filename, column relative width).
  • Flexible and detail control of table structure.
• Format control in cell, row, column and table level for:
  • Border Type: single, double, dash, dot, etc.
  • Alignment: left, right, center, decimal.
  • Column width.
  • Text appearance: bold, italics, strikethrough, underline and any combinations.
  • Font size.
  • Text and border color (657 different colors named in color() function).
  • Special characters: any character in UTF-8 encoding (e.g., Greek, Symbol, Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
• Append several tables into one file.
• Pagination.
• Built-in raw data for validation.

Simple Example

library(dplyr)
library(r2rtf)

head(iris) %>%
  rtf_body() %>%                 # Step 1 Add attributes
  rtf_encode() %>%               # Step 2 Convert attributes to RTF encode
  write_rtf(file = "ex-tbl.rtf") # Step 3 Write to a .rtf file

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• More Examples

Example Efficacy Table

• Source code

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Example Safety Table

• Source code

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