Colour body of flextable

Question

I am piping data into the following in the hope to put a blue table around my data where am I going wrong?

 |> 
 flextable::flextable() |> 
 colors(color = 'blue',part = "body")
 

I get the following error

Error in colors(flextable::flextable(filter(select(EPR, region, organisation), : unused arguments (colors = "blue", part = "body")

Answer 1

Either use flextable::bg() instead of colors(), and replace argument color with bg (~background) to change the background colour,

library(flextable)
head(datasets::CO2) |>
  flextable() |>
  bg(bg = 'blue', part = "body")

or do

library(flextable)
head(datasets::CO2) |>
  flextable() |>
  color(color = 'blue', part = "body")

to change the text colour of the body's text.