descriptive_statistic: descriptive_statistic

In aelab: Data Processing for Aquatic Ecology

descriptive_statistic

Description

Compute grouped mean ± SD and min–max summary statistics for one or more numeric variables.

Usage

descriptive_statistic(data, vars, groups, digits = 2)

Arguments

data	A data frame.
vars	<['tidy-select'][dplyr::dplyr_tidy_select]> Columns to summarise.
groups	<['tidy-select'][dplyr::dplyr_tidy_select]> Grouping columns.
digits	Number of decimal places to round to. Default is 2.

Value

A tibble with one row per group and two summary columns per variable ('<var>_mean_sd' and '<var>_min_max').

Examples

df <- data.frame(group = c("A","A","B","B"), value = c(1.1, 2.3, 3.5, 4.7))
descriptive_statistic(df, vars = value, groups = group)

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