Constructor for column data

The new_pillar_shaft() constructor creates objects of the "pillar_shaft" class. This is a virtual or abstract class, you must specify the class argument. By convention, this should be a string that starts with "pillar_shaft_". See vignette("extending", package = "tibble") for usage examples.

This method accepts a vector of arbitrary length and is expected to return an S3 object with the following properties:

• It has an attribute "width"

• It can have an attribute "min_width", if missing, "width" is used

• It must implement a method format(x, width, ...) that can be called with any value between min_width and width

• This method must return an object that inherits from character and has attributes "align" (with supported values "left", "right", and "center") and "width"

The function new_pillar_shaft() returns such an object, and also correctly formats NA values. In many cases, the implementation of pillar_shaft.your_class_name() will format the data as a character vector (using color for emphasis) and simply call new_pillar_shaft(). See pillar:::pillar_shaft.numeric for a code that allows changing the display depending on the available width.

new_pillar_shaft_simple() provides an implementation of the pillar_shaft class suitable for output that has a fixed formatting, which will be truncated with a continuation character (ellipsis or ~) if it doesn't fit the available width. By default, the required width is computed from the natural width of the formatted argument.

new_pillar_shaft(
  x,
  ...,
  width = NULL,
  min_width = width,
  class = NULL,
  subclass = NULL
)

new_pillar_shaft_simple(
  formatted,
  ...,
  width = NULL,
  align = "left",
  min_width = NULL,
  na = NULL,
  na_indent = 0L
)

Arguments

x	An object
...	Additional attributes.
width	The maximum column width.
min_width	The minimum allowed column width, width if omitted.
class	The name of the subclass.
subclass	Deprecated, pass the class argument instead.
formatted	An object coercible to character.
align	Alignment of the column.
na	String to use as NA value, defaults to "NA" styled with style_na() with fallback if color is not available.
na_indent	Indentation of NA values.

Details

The formatted argument may also contain ANSI escapes to change color or other attributes of the text, see crayon.