ds.quantileMean: Computes the quantiles of a server-side variable

In datashield/dsBaseClient: DataSHIELD Client Functions

Computes the quantiles of a server-side variable

Description

This function calculates the mean and quantile values of a server-side quantitative variable.

Usage

ds.quantileMean(x = NULL, type = "combine", datasources = NULL)

Arguments

x	a character string specifying the name of the numeric vector.
type	a character that represents the type of graph to display. This can be set as 'combine' or 'split'. For more information see Details.
datasources	a list of DSConnection-class objects obtained after login. If the datasources argument is not specified the default set of connections will be used: see datashield.connections_default.

Details

This function does not return the minimum and maximum values because they are potentially disclosive.

Depending on the argument type can be carried out two types of analysis:
(1) type = 'combine' pooled values are displayed
(2) type = 'split' summaries are returned for each study.

Server functions called: quantileMeanDS, length and numNaDS

Value

ds.quantileMean returns to the client-side the quantiles and statistical mean of a server-side numeric vector.

Author(s)

DataSHIELD Development Team

See Also

ds.mean to compute the statistical mean.

ds.summary to generate the summary of a variable.

Examples

## Not run: 

 ## Version 6, for version 5 see the Wiki
  
  # connecting to the Opal servers

  require('DSI')
  require('DSOpal')
  require('dsBaseClient')

  builder <- DSI::newDSLoginBuilder()
  builder$append(server = "study1", 
                 url = "http://192.168.56.100:8080/", 
                 user = "administrator", password = "datashield_test&", 
                 table = "CNSIM.CNSIM1", driver = "OpalDriver")
  builder$append(server = "study2", 
                 url = "http://192.168.56.100:8080/", 
                 user = "administrator", password = "datashield_test&", 
                 table = "CNSIM.CNSIM2", driver = "OpalDriver")
  builder$append(server = "study3",
                 url = "http://192.168.56.100:8080/", 
                 user = "administrator", password = "datashield_test&", 
                 table = "CNSIM.CNSIM3", driver = "OpalDriver")
  logindata <- builder$build()
  
  connections <- DSI::datashield.login(logins = logindata, assign = TRUE, symbol = "D") 
  
  #Get the quantiles and mean of a server-side variable
  
  ds.quantileMean(x = "D$LAB_TRIG",
                  type = "combine",
                  datasources = connections)
  
  
  # clear the Datashield R sessions and logout
  datashield.logout(connections)



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datashield/dsBaseClient documentation built on May 16, 2023, 10:19 p.m.