gt - a (G)rammar of (T)ables

Not to be confused with a Game of Thrones

Preview of the table to come

A preview of the table to come!

gt package - a (g)rammar of (t)ables

gt is an R package for generating formatted tables from dataframes in R with a Grammar of Tables.

If you want to go deeper than this basic guide, check out the gt site, which has lots of examples!

Raw data comes from: Pro Football Reference & Over the Cap

Component parts of a gt table

Per the package website, gt has the following component parts:

The parts (roughly from top to bottom) are:

• the Table Header (optional; with a title and possibly a subtitle)
• the Stub and the Stub Head (optional; contains row labels, optionally within row groups having row group labels and possibly summary labels when a summary is present)
• the Column Labels (contains column labels, optionally under spanner column labels)
• the Table Body (contains columns and rows of cells)
• the Table Footer (optional; possibly with footnotes and source notes)

As you can see it is fleshing out the idea of formatting or adding various parts of the table in a robust way.

Read in the Data

I’ve gone through collecting the data and have put into a non-tidy wide format for Salary Rank, playoff week and appearances, Total appearances, and finally salary from 2014-2019.

library(gt) # for static tables
library(tidyverse) # all the things
library(paletteer) # for all the palettes

playoff_salary <- read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jthomasmock/radix_themockup/master/_posts/2020-05-13-qb-salaries-vs-playoff-appearances/playoff_salary.csv")

glimpse(