 to reports which are put out often and need multiple sections added or removed. It can save a lot of time and energy to instead automate that task away.</p>
<p>That’s the motivation behind <code>heddlr</code><a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a>: to reduce that repetitive work and, as a side effect, simplify your code. To do so, <code>heddlr</code> looks at reports as a collection of components, which we’ll call patterns. As it happens, our super cool report above is made up 