Module 2: APA Tables
Automating the Mundane with Flextable
The Problem with Tables
Formatting APA tables in Word is painful. * “Times New Roman, 12pt” * “No vertical lines.” * “Horizontal lines only at the top, bottom, and under headers.”
If you do this by hand, you have to redo it every time your N changes.
The Solution: flextable
The flextable package is the engine that drives modern reproducible reporting. It exports native Word tables that look perfect.
1. Setup (Re-Loading Data)
2. Table 1: Demographics
We want a table showing Mean (SD) for continuous variables and N (%) for categorical ones.
3. The Correlation Matrix
Psychologists love correlation tables. Let’s make one that flags significance automatically.
Note on Tables
We use results: asis and HTML conversion to show you the crisp, styled table right here in the browser.