formattable was originally designed to work in rmarkdown environments. Conversion of a formattable to a htmlwidget will allow use in other contexts such as console, RStudio Viewer, and Shiny.

# S3 method for class 'formattable'
as.htmlwidget(x, width = "100%", height = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

a formattable object to convert

width

a valid CSS width

height

a valid CSS height

...

reserved for more parameters

Value

a htmlwidget object

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(formattable)
# mtcars (mpg background in gradient: the higher, the redder)
as.htmlwidget(
  formattable(mtcars, list(mpg = formatter("span",
   style = x ~ style(display = "block",
   "border-radius" = "4px",
   "padding-right" = "4px",
   color = "white",
   "background-color" = rgb(x/max(x), 0, 0))))
  )
)

# since an htmlwidget, composes well with other tags
library(htmltools)

browsable(
  tagList(
    tags$div( class="jumbotron"
              ,tags$h1( class = "text-center"
                        ,tags$span(class = "glyphicon glyphicon-fire")
                        ,"experimental as.htmlwidget at work"
              )
    )
    ,tags$div( class = "row"
               ,tags$div( class = "col-sm-2"
                          ,tags$p(class="bg-primary", "Hi, I am formattable htmlwidget.")
               )
               ,tags$div( class = "col-sm-6"
                          ,as.htmlwidget( formattable( mtcars ) )
               )
    )
  )
)
} # }