R Create print table with different types of data in it

Question

Here is my problem

I have this sample data.frame:

Name=c("a","b","c","d")
Value=c(12.3,10.5,2.6,1.2)
Label=c("label1","label2","label3","label4")
df=data.frame(Name,Value,Label)

I want to create a table only for displaying (in a Rnotebook) with the data in df but flipping rows and columns.

wanted displayed table

Is it an efficient way to do it? flextable or kable do not seem to have flipping possibilities.

A data.frame transposition is not a solution since columns can't mix different data types (numeric, character)...

I can't imagine nobody encountered the problem...

Answer 1

Using a custom function to "flip" your dataframe you could do:

flip_df <- function(x) {
  x <- data.frame(t(x))
  x <- cbind(row.names(x), x)
  names(x) <- x[1,]
  x[-1, ]  
}

library(flextable)

flextable(flip_df(df))