Why R? Webinars: Tabular reporting with the flextable package with David Gohel
Details
- channel: youtube.com/c/WhyRFoundationVideos
- date: every Thursday 7:00 pm (Irish Time)
- format: one 45 minutes long stream + 10 minutes for Q&A
- MC: Lais Carvalho & Guests
- comments: ask questions on YouTube live chat
- join Why R? Slack whyr.pl/slack/
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/why-r
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/whyrconf/
Description:
## Tabular reporting with the flextable package
Tables, just like graphs, can be a very good way to provide synthetic and clear information.
The flextable package offers a flexible and rich syntax allowing the construction and formatting of static tables from R, these tables can be integrated into HTML, Word, PDF and PowerPoint documents when using R Markdown and into Word and PowerPoint documents with package officer.
In this talk, learn about the features of the package and the main principles, what are the latest advances, how the package is maintained and possible new features.
## Speaker
David Gohel is the founder of ArData, a French company providing R expertise, R training and consulting in data sciences. He is the author of R packages, most popular are officer, flextable, rvg and ggiraph.
He is a data scientist and software engineer. His professional experiences led him to face many challenges related to the data of organizations, which he has always managed with solutions involving R software.