tabtexdescstat: Creates a LaTeX file having a descriptive statistics table...

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Creates a LaTeX file having a descriptive statistics table for continuous variables

Description

Function to create a LaTeX file for a table of descriptive statistics of continuous variables from a dataframe.

Usage

tabtexdescstat(
  data = data,
  colnames = colnames,
  varnames = varnames,
  cap = cap,
  nametab = nametab,
  save.file = FALSE,
  filename = "tabdescdata.tex",
  eng = TRUE,
  rowlab = "Variable",
  decnum = 3,
  font.size.tab = "normalsize",
  font.type.tab = "normalfont",
  variable.row = FALSE
)

Arguments

data	a dataframe containing numeric variables as columns.
colnames	a string having the column names of the dataframe to which the descriptive statistics will be computed.
varnames	a string having the name of each of the variables to be used in the LaTeX table.
cap	a string having the caption of the LaTeX table.
nametab	a string having a brief name to be used in both the label of the table and the file name. For instance, if "=descdata", the table can be refered in your LaTeX document by using ⁠\ref{tab:descdata}⁠
save.file	The defauls is set to “FALSE”, if is set to TRUE, then the option filename must be provided.
filename	A string having the name of the resulting LaTeX file having the table. The default is set to "tabdescdata.tex".
eng	The language to be used in the output. English is the default, meanwhile if eng=FALSE, Spanish is used.
rowlab	a character with the name to be used as label for the column where the variables will be printed. The default is set to "Variables".
decnum	the number of decimals to be used in the output. The default is set to 3.
font.size.tab	The defauls is set to "normalsize". You could also try with "footnotesize".
font.type.tab	The defauls is set to "normalfont".
variable.row	A logical option specifying whether the variables are used in the rows of the output. The default is to FALSE, thus, the variables are used as the main colum of the table.

Details

The resulting file is a LaTeX table, that can be added to your main LaTeX document by using ⁠\input{filename}⁠.

Value

This function creates a LaTeX file having the following descriptive statistics: sample size, minimum, maximum, mean, median, SD, and coefficient of variation. If the full option is set to TRUE, the following statistics are added to the table: 25th and 75th percentiles, the interquartile range, skewness, and kurtosis.

Author(s)

Christian Salas-Eljatib.

References

Salas-Eljatib, C. 2021. Análisis de datos con el programa estadístico R: una introducción aplicada. Ediciones Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile. 170 p. https://eljatib.com/rlibro

Examples

df <- datana::idahohd
head(df)
##example 1
tabtexdescstat(data=df,nametab="idaho",
 cap="Descriptive statistics table",
colnames=c("dbh","toth"),varnames = c("Diameter","Height"))
##example 2
tabtexdescstat(data=df,nametab="idaho",
cap="Cuadro con estadistica descriptiva",
 colnames=c("dbh","toth"),varnames = c("Diametro","Altura"),
 eng=FALSE)
##! Example 3: variables as columns
tabtexdescstat(data=df,nametab="idaho",
 cap="Descriptive statistics table",colnames=c("dbh","toth"),
varnames = c("Diameter","Height"),variable.row=FALSE)

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