Tab stops are put in column 1 ignoring the selection (e.g. j=3:8)

[adrianolszewski]

Hello @davidgohel
First of all, thank you wholeheartedly for bringing decimal (and other) tabulation marks into flextable. It is totally a game changer!
And it works perfectly.

Only I noticed one thing. I formatted a table, where the 2 first columns described the content, and the remaining columns held the numeric content.

In the 1st column I prepended the content with "\t" to mimic a nested hierarchy of items. That's very common in my field.

I didn't need any specific positions of tab stops here. Just plain, simple tabs. So I explicitly told flextable to put tab stops only in concrete cells: at the cross of i=1:nrow(data) and j=3:8.

Yet the tab stops were put in the first column too, which spoiled the hierarchy.

Luckily it was enough to select the 1 column and delete the tab stops with a mouse to fix it.

Maybe this issue was caused by the fact that I merged cells in the the 1 row to make a vertical sub-header?

[adrianolszewski]

Is it possible to set the tab stops for a selection of columns?

When I tried doing separate assignments, an error was returned:

   tab_settings(part="body",
+                i=1:nrow(result),
+                j=3:8,
+                fp_tabs(
+                  fp_tab(pos = 0.65/2.54, style="decimal")
+                )) +
+   
+   tab_settings(part="body",
+                i=1:nrow(result),
+                j=14,
+                fp_tabs(
+                  fp_tab(pos = 0.7/2.54, style="decimal"),
+                  fp_tab(pos = 1.23/2.54, style="left"),
+                  fp_tab(pos = 1.97/2.54, style="decimal")
+                ))

Error in nrow_part(x, part) :
Function `nrow_part()` supports only flextable objects.

And it seems that tab stops are set indeed for the entire table, it ignores the column selection.