 Hi everyone, my name is Aaron Conway. I'm a assistant professor at the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. I'm really pleased to be able to participate in this conference and really looking forward to viewing all of your presentations. Today I wanted to present to you just the way that I've used the FlexTable package to create kind of some graphical study characteristics summary tables for the last couple of systematic reviews that I've done. So the code is available to you and use here if you want to. And so I'll just show you what I've done. So first of all, I suppose the reason that I use the FlexTable package in particular in comparison to any one of the very many others that there are is that it pairs really well with this office down package, which then you can use so you can include your table just in that one up down document source document. There's going to be your reproducible manuscript because you can use this office down package to kind of change the landscape because obviously with tables a lot of the time you have to use a more horizontal landscape format rather than the vertical and various other things like that. So FlexTable paired really well with this office down package and you can still kind of include some graphical sort of images within your table to display the data better. So these are the packages that we needed to use. We'll just draw in some data and then this first chunk was just some data preparation kind of stuff to get your table into to start off with in this text format. That includes all the kind of typical characteristics that you would include in a normal summary study characteristics table to systematic review. So things like age, author details, the country, some details about the characteristics of the participants like age, sex, I do clinical research. So we typically include some details about where the study was conducted. So what clinical setting and this systematic review in particular was about the accuracy and precision of a type of blood pressure measurement device. So we included the device type where the measurements were taken and information about the number of participants and the number of measurements that were compared in the study. And so basically this table, you know, we just use the FlexTable package to kind of replace some of this text with graphical images to make it a little bit more interesting. So the first thing that the FlexTable package allows you to do is kind of replace some numbers with these kind of bar columns with this function called minibar. And so essentially we I used it to show the comparisons of like sex, so female versus male by putting one of the colors, you know, as more of a blue color and the other one as a pink. And so we basically just replaced that the percentage there with a color for the foreground and the background. And then another cool thing about the FlexTable package is you can use the function as image to just put in any type of image to into a particular cell to replace a cell. And I used that with the flag on flags package to replace the countries with a flag. So that's particularly useful in this circumstance because just having a little picture of a flag to replace like long country names gives you a bit of extra horizontal space for the table, which is handy to have when you're needing to knit to like a Word document rather than HTML or something. So that was a handy feature of the FlexTable package that was useful in this context. The next part of it was I wanted to replace some of the numbers for the number of participants and the number of measurements in each study, so that you can the reader can more easily kind of pick out which studies were the largest included the or particularly small studies. And so we use from the FlexTable package this for the participants we use the mini bar function to create these bars again. And for the measurements it's like this lollipop measure. And it's actually got so it's got like a bit of white like a white bar and then a purple little dot on the end to make the lollipop charts will replace the background a little bit later to make the white kind of stand out a bit more. And then we there are some functions within the FlexTable package to kind of merge redundant content between columns or rows. So we've done that with the year here and then we've merged some redundant content from some of the rows where we've got duplicated content from different studies for here. And then we've got some additional styling like I was saying you can replace some of the background color of the cells to kind of make those lollipop charts stand out a bit more and also replace some of the column headings. And then we can move through to another kind of feature was you can just as I was saying before you can add in any sorts of images and we just added an image into this column header to explain kind of the legend of the gender or the sex column. So that's kind of the the functions within the FlexTable package that I use but it again it was really the fact that FlexTable really pairs well with this office down package. And you can use these kind of comments block comments from the office down package to enable like a landscape view just for the pages where you want to display these tables in the landscape format. So that when you knit your table it'll produce the document in the landscape format. So that's where it ends up looking like. So just basically a way to kind of replace text that you would usually include in a systematic review summary characteristics table with some images to display the information in a more visually appealing way. Thanks again for listening and looking forward to viewing everyone else's presentations. Thanks very much.