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Apply Excel Styling Across Multiple Spreadsheets using openxlsx in R?


I have an example where I write multiple individual spreadsheets, I would like to style each spreadsheet but expanding the column width, formatting it as a table, and making the header background blue:

Creation of Multiple Spreadsheets on Parameter Date

df <- data.frame(Date = Sys.Date() - 0:4, Logical = c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE),
                 Currency = paste("$", -2:2), Accounting = -2:2, hLink = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/",
                 Percentage = seq(-1, 1, length.out = 5), TinyNumber = runif(5)/1e+09, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

dat_grouped <- df %>% group_by(Date)


lapply(group_split(dat_grouped), function(x){openxlsx::write.xlsx(x, paste0(x$Date[1], ".xlsx"))})

How can I Apply Styling to Each Individual Spreadsheet - Example of Ideal Output

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Where the header is light blue and columns are widened.


Solution

  • This should be enough to get you started. Note: I changed the Currency variable, keeping it as numeric. When you paste "$" it becomes text. Also, I split the data frame using split instead of group_split:

    library(dplyr)
    library(openxlsx)
    library(purrr)
    
    df <- data.frame(Date = Sys.Date() - 0:4, Logical = c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE),
                     Currency = -2:2, Accounting = -2:2, hLink = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/",
                     Percentage = seq(-1, 1, length.out = 5), TinyNumber = runif(5)/1e+09, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
    
    dat_grouped <- df %>% split(~ Date)
    
    
    # Create styles for each format you need
    blue_white <- createStyle(fgFill = "#03a9f4", fontColour = "white")
    pct <- createStyle(numFmt = "PERCENTAGE")
    currency <- createStyle(numFmt = "CURRENCY")
    round2 <- createStyle(numFmt = "0.000000000")
    
    wb <- write.xlsx(dat_grouped, "output.xlsx")
    sheets <- seq_along(dat_grouped)
    
    # Apply formatting
    walk2(sheets, dat_grouped, ~ addStyle(wb, .x, pct, cols = 6, rows = 2:nrow(.y)))
    walk2(sheets, dat_grouped, ~ addStyle(wb, .x, currency, cols = 3, rows = 2:nrow(.y)))
    walk2(sheets, dat_grouped, ~ addStyle(wb, .x, round2, cols = 7, rows = 2:nrow(.y)))
    walk(sheets, ~ addStyle(wb, .x, blue_white, row = 1, cols = seq_len(ncol(df))))
    walk(sheets, ~ setColWidths(wb, .x, cols = seq_len(ncol(df)), widths = "auto"))
    saveWorkbook(wb, "output.xlsx", overwrite = TRUE)
    

    Output

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