fmt_mean_stderr: Formatted mean and standard error

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Formatted mean and standard error

Description

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

Usage

fmt_mean_stderr(x, format = "%.1f", stderr_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 error with one decimal place.
stderr_format	An optional format for the standard error. If this parameter is not supplied, the standard error will be formatted the same as the mean, according to the 'format' parameter.

Details

This function calculates a mean and standard error, 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 error.

See Also

Other helpers: fmt_cnt_pct(), fmt_mean_sd(), 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 error
fmt_mean_stderr(v1)
# "5.7 (0.9)"

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