The cols_move_to_end() function

For this example, we’ll use a portion of the countrypops dataset to create a simple gt table. Let’s move the year column, which is the middle column, to the end of the column series with cols_move_to_end().

countrypops |>
  dplyr::select(-contains("code")) |>
  dplyr::filter(
    country_name == "Benin",
    year %in% 2017:2021
  ) |>
  gt() |>
  cols_move_to_end(columns = year)

country_name	population	year
Benin	11596779	2017
Benin	11940683	2018
Benin	12290444	2019
Benin	12643123	2020
Benin	12996895	2021

We can also move multiple columns at a time. With the same countrypops-based table, let’s move both the year and country_name columns to the end of the column series.

countrypops |>
  dplyr::select(-contains("code")) |>
  dplyr::filter(
    country_name == "Benin",
    year %in% 2017:2021
  ) |>
  gt() |>
  cols_move_to_end(columns = c(year, country_name))

population	year	country_name
11596779	2017	Benin
11940683	2018	Benin
12290444	2019	Benin
12643123	2020	Benin
12996895	2021	Benin