fmt_mean_sd: Formatted mean and standard deviation

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Formatted mean and standard deviation

Description

A function to calculate and format a mean and standard deviation.

Usage

fmt_mean_sd(x, format = "%.1f", sd_format = NULL)

Arguments

x	The input data vector or data frame column.
format	A formatting string suitable for input into the sprintf function. By default, this format is defined as "%.1f", which displays the mean and standard deviation with one decimal place.
sd_format	An optional format for the standard deviation. If this parameter is not supplied, the standard deviation will be formatted the same as the mean, according to the 'format' parameter.

Details

This function calculates a mean and standard deviation, and formats using sprintf. You may control the format using the format parameter. Function will ignore NA values in the input data. Results are returned as a character vector.

Value

The formatted mean and standard deviation.

See Also

Other helpers: fmt_cnt_pct(), fmt_median(), fmt_n(), fmt_quantile_range(), fmt_range()

Examples

v1 <- c(4.3, 3.7, 8.7, 6.1, 9.2, 5.6, NA, 0.7, 7.8, 4.9)

# Format mean and standard deviation
fmt_mean_sd(v1)
# "5.7 (2.7)"

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