Location helper for targeting group summary cells

The cells_summary() function is used to target the cells in a group summary and it is useful when applying a footnote with tab_footnote() or adding a custom style with tab_style(). The function is expressly used in each of those functions' locations argument. The 'summary' location is generated by the summary_rows() function.

Usage

cells_summary(
  groups = everything(),
  columns = everything(),
  rows = everything()
)

Arguments

groups: The names of the groups that the summary rows reside in.
columns: The names of the columns that are to be targeted.
rows: The names of the rows that are to be targeted.

Value

A list object with the classes cells_summary and location_cells.

Overview of Location Helper Functions

Location helper functions can be used to target cells with virtually any function that has a locations argument. Here is a listing of all of the location helper functions, with locations corresponding roughly from top to bottom of a table:

cells_title(): targets the table title or the table subtitle depending on the value given to the groups argument ("title" or "subtitle").
cells_stubhead(): targets the stubhead location, a cell of which is only available when there is a stub; a label in that location can be created by using the tab_stubhead() function.
cells_column_spanners(): targets the spanner column labels with the spanners argument; spanner column labels appear above the column labels.
cells_column_labels(): targets the column labels with its columns argument.
cells_row_groups(): targets the row group labels in any available row groups using the groups argument.
cells_stub(): targets row labels in the table stub using the rows argument.
cells_body(): targets data cells in the table body using intersections of columns and rows.
cells_summary(): targets summary cells in the table body using the groups argument and intersections of columns and rows.
cells_grand_summary(): targets cells of the table's grand summary using intersections of columns and rows
cells_stub_summary(): targets summary row labels in the table stub using the groups and rows arguments.
cells_stub_grand_summary(): targets grand summary row labels in the table stub using the rows argument.
cells_footnotes(): targets all footnotes in the table footer (cannot be used with tab_footnote()).
cells_source_notes(): targets all source notes in the table footer (cannot be used with tab_footnote()).

When using any of the location helper functions with an appropriate function that has a locations argument (e.g., tab_style()), multiple locations can be targeted by enclosing several cells_*() helper functions in a list() (e.g., list(cells_body(), cells_grand_summary())).

Examples

Use countrypops to create a gt table. Add some styling to the summary data cells with with tab_style(), using cells_summary() in locations.

countrypops %>%
  dplyr::filter(country_name == "Japan", year < 1970) %>%
  dplyr::select(-contains("country")) %>%
  dplyr::mutate(decade = paste0(substr(year, 1, 3), "0s")) %>%
  gt(
    rowname_col = "year",
    groupname_col = "decade"
  ) %>%
  fmt_number(
    columns = population,
    decimals = 0
  ) %>%
  summary_rows(
    groups = "1960s",
    columns = population,
    fns = list("min", "max"),
    formatter = fmt_number,
    decimals = 0
  ) %>%
  tab_style(
    style = list(
      cell_text(style = "italic"),
      cell_fill(color = "lightblue")
    ),
    locations = cells_summary(
      groups = "1960s",
      columns = population,
      rows = 1
    )
  ) %>%
  tab_style(
    style = list(
      cell_text(style = "italic"),
      cell_fill(color = "lightgreen")
    ),
    locations = cells_summary(
      groups = "1960s",
      columns = population,
      rows = 2
    )
  )

This image of a table was generated from the first code example in the `cells_summary()` help file.

Function ID

7-13