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.

Usage

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

new_pillar_shaft_simple(
  formatted,
  ...,
  width = NULL,
  align = "left",
  min_width = NULL,
  na = NULL,
  na_indent = 0L,
  shorten = c("back", "front", "mid", "abbreviate"),
  short_formatted = NULL
)

Arguments

x

An object

...

Passed on to new_pillar_shaft().

width

The maximum column width.

min_width

The minimum allowed column width, width if omitted.

type_sum

Override the type summary displayed at the top of the data. This argument, if given, takes precedence over the type summary provided by type_sum().

class

The name of the subclass.

subclass

Deprecated, pass the class argument instead.

formatted

The data to show, 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.

shorten

How to abbreviate the data if necessary:

• "back" (default): add an ellipsis at the end

• "front": add an ellipsis at the front

• "mid": add an ellipsis in the middle

• "abbreviate": use abbreviate()

short_formatted

If provided, a character vector of the same length as formatted, to be used when the available width is insufficient to show the full output.

Details

The formatted argument may also contain ANSI escapes to change color or other attributes of the text, provided e.g. by the cli package.