flextable -- print row names of transposed data frame

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I am using flextable to format data frame output. I would like to transpose some of them for display, but can't figure how to get the row names to show in the output. Any ideas?

I am happy using another package -- my thought was to use flextable because I want to render directly to MS Word and from what I understand this is the best package for that.

library(flextable)

# Transposed data frame
iris_head <- as.data.frame(t(head(iris)))

# I would like to display the row names
# in the column of the output

flextable(iris_head)

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You can use add_rownames()

library(flextable)
library(dplyr)
iris %>%
    head() %>%
    t() %>% 
    as.data.frame() %>% 
    add_rownames() %>% 
    flextable()

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You can do a similar thing for the column names but, with iris dataset is not possible because of the duplicated species name

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Thanks so much -- much nicer transpose operation too.