gt/gtExtras: cols_label with_tooltip from a dataframe/list

[vikasrawal]

I want to pick up labels and tooltips for column names from a data.frame (which has three columns: colnames, collabels and coltooltips).

In other words, in the following,

cols_label(
var1=with_tooltip(label="Label 1",tooltip="Tooltip 2"),
var2=with_tooltip(label="Label 2",tooltip="Tooltip 2"))

I want to pick up variables, labels and tooltips from a data frame. I can write a function that can create these strings but how do I use them as arguments for cols_label.

Thanks

[olivroy]

This is a good idea.

In the mean time, you can use plain old html to do it!

If you use the abbr html tag https://html.com/tags/abbr/#:~:text=The%20element%20is%20used,technologies%20do%20use%20this%20information. and wrap it in the special html() helper function, you will create a tooltip!

mtcars |> 
  gt::gt() |> 
  cols_label(
    vs = html(
      "<abbr title = 'Tooltip'>  vs</abbr>"
    )
  )