stringify_frequency: Combine elements of a frequency table into a (character)...

In ClaraMarquardt/ehR: A collection of R functions designed to facilitate the interaction with and analysis of EHR data.

Description

Combine elements of a frequency table into a (character) string.

Usage

stringify_frequency(data, expl_text, element_number = 10, sort = TRUE,
  item_sep = "/", text_col = NA, number_col = NA, ndigit = 3)

Arguments

data	frequency table (table(x) output).
expl_text	text which is to be appended at the end of the string (e.g. "(Percent of diagnoses)") (character).
element_number	number of rows of the frequency table which are to be included (integer) [default:10].
sort	whether to sort the frequency table (descending order) (logical - TRUE/FALSE) [default: TRUE].
item_sep	symbol used to separate the elements in the string (character) [default: "//"].
text_col	name of text column (character) [default: automatically identify column based on column types].
number_col	name of number column (character) [default: automatically identify column based on column types].

Details

Maintained by: Clara Marquardt

Value

formatted (character) string or data.table.

Examples

data_raw  <- prop.table(table(dia$dia_name))*100
freq_string <- stringify_frequency(data=data_raw, expl_text="Percent of Principal Diagnoses (%)", element_number=5, sort=TRUE, item_sep="//", ndigit=3)
print(freq_string)

ClaraMarquardt/ehR documentation built on May 6, 2019, 12:02 p.m.