Get the type of an element

Returns a single lowercase string identifying the concrete type of an element object. Useful for dispatching on type or for filtering the output of get_elements().

Usage

element_type(x, ...)

Arguments

x

An element object or subclass.

Value

A single character string: one of "text", "image", "chart", "table", "shape", or "unknown" (the last for the base element class when no known key is present in the raw API node).

See also

element, get_elements()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  ps <- register_presentation(id = "YOUR_PRESENTATION_ID", set_active = FALSE)
  slide_obj <- on_slide_number(1, ps)
  els <- get_all_elements(slide_obj)

  purrr::map_chr(els, element_type)
}