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The `pill_buttons()` function surrounds text or numeric values in a column in a colored pill button. If `pill_buttons()` is applied to a column containing text, the color of the pill button can be provided via a single color can be provided within `color` or via another column in the dataset by referencing the column name with `color_ref` (conditionally applying colors to text). If `pill_buttons` is applied to a numeric column, either a single color or a vector of colors can be provided within `color` or the colors can also be assigned via `color_ref`. The opacity of the color(s) provided can be adjusted by providing a value between 0 and 1 in `opacity`. The color of the text/values can be changed using `text_color`. If text/values are displayed within a dark-colored background, `brighten_text` will display the text/values in white so they are more visible. The color of `brighten_text_color` can be changed to a color other than white if desired. The horizontal alignment of `pill_buttons()` can be controlled using reactable::colDef(align = "center"). `pill_buttons()` needs to placed within the cell argument in reactable::colDef.

Usage

pill_buttons(
  data,
  colors = "#15607A",
  color_ref = NULL,
  opacity = 1,
  number_fmt = NULL,
  show_text = TRUE,
  text_size = NULL,
  text_color = "black",
  text_color_ref = NULL,
  brighten_text = TRUE,
  brighten_text_color = "white",
  bold_text = FALSE,
  box_shadow = FALSE,
  tooltip = FALSE,
  animation = "background 1s ease"
)

Arguments

data

Dataset containing either a text or numeric column.

colors

The background color of the pill button. Only a single color can be provided for columns containing text. Multiple colors can be provided for columns containing values and should be given in order from low values to high values. If multiple colors are provided for columns containing text, the first color in the vector will be assigned to the text. The default color provided is "#15607A". Can use R's built-in colors or other color packages.

color_ref

Optionally assign colors to from another column by providing the name of the column containing the colors in quotes. Only one color can be provided per row. Default is NULL.

opacity

A value between 0 and 1 that adjusts the opacity in color(s). A value of 0 is fully transparent, a value of 1 is fully opaque. Default is 1.

number_fmt

Optionally format numbers using formats from the scales package. Default is NULL.

show_text

Logical: show text or hide text. Default is TRUE.

text_size

Numeric value representing the size of the text labels. Default is NULL.

text_color

Assigns text color to values. Default is black.

text_color_ref

Optionally assign text color from another column by providing the name of the column containing the text colors in quotes. Only one color can be provided per cell. Default is NULL.

brighten_text

Logical: automatically assign color to text based on background color of the pill button. Text within dark-colored backgrounds will turn white, text within light-colored backgrounds will be black. Default is TRUE.

brighten_text_color

Assigns text color to values if values are within a dark-colored pill button backgrounds. Default is white.

bold_text

Logical: bold text. Default is FALSE.

box_shadow

Logical: add a box shadow to the buttons. Default is FALSE.

tooltip

Logical: hover tooltip. Default is FALSE.

animation

Control the duration and timing function of the animation when sorting/updating values shown on a page. See [CSS transitions](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/transition) for available timing functions and examples. Animation can be turned off by setting to "none". Default is "background 1s ease".

Value

a function that surrounds text/values in a column with a colored pill button.

Examples

library(dplyr)
data <- iris[45:54, ]

## Surround text with pill buttons:
reactable(
data,
columns = list(
Species = colDef(cell = pill_buttons(data))))
#> Error in x$width %||% settings$fig.width * settings$dpi: non-numeric argument to binary operator

## Conditionally apply colors from another column:
data %>%
mutate(color_assign = case_when(
Species == "setosa" ~ "red",
Species == "versicolor" ~ "forestgreen",
TRUE ~ "grey")) %>%
reactable(.,
columns = list(
Species = colDef(cell = pill_buttons(., color_ref = "color_assign"))))
#> Error in x$width %||% settings$fig.width * settings$dpi: non-numeric argument to binary operator

## Surround numeric values with pill buttons:
reactable(
data,
columns = list(
Petal.Width = colDef(cell = pill_buttons(data))))
#> Error in x$width %||% settings$fig.width * settings$dpi: non-numeric argument to binary operator

## Apply multiple colors to numeric values:
reactable(
data,
columns = list(
Petal.Width = colDef(
cell = pill_buttons(data,
                    colors = c("lightpink","white","lightgreen"),
                    opacity = 0.3))))
#> Error in x$width %||% settings$fig.width * settings$dpi: non-numeric argument to binary operator

## Apply a box shadow to the buttons to give a 3-D effect:
reactable(
data,
columns = list(
Petal.Width = colDef(
cell = pill_buttons(data,
                    box_shadow = TRUE,
                    colors = c("lightpink","white","lightgreen"),
                    opacity = 0.3))))
#> Error in x$width %||% settings$fig.width * settings$dpi: non-numeric argument to binary operator