Export flextable as html

Question

If I print a flextable object, it get displayed as html in a browser. Is there a way of saving the html. I am using 0.5.1 version of flextable.

Answer 1

You can produce an HTML document containing a flextable with R Markdown. The following is extracted from the documentation - this is how flextable can be used in R Markdown documents:

> this is how to print a flextable in a R Markdown document

```{r eval=FALSE}
library(magrittr)
mytable <- cars %>% 
  head() %>% 
  flextable() %>% 
  autofit()

mytable
```

Answer 2

Update November 2019: the function is now available in the package version 0.5.6

ft <- flextable(mydataframe) # create a flextable object
save_as_html(ft, "path/to/file.html") # and save as html

From the documentation: https://rdrr.io/cran/flextable/man/save_as_html.html

Answer 3

The provided answers require users to export (i.e. save) the flextable.

To 'just' transform a flextable object to HTML, use their htmltools_value() function:

library(dplyr) # for the pipe
library(flextable)
mtcars %>%
  flextable() %>%
  htmltools_value()

This is ideal for adding a flextable to e.g. an email object (using the blastula package or the Microsoft365R package for example).