meanFunc: Format for printing mean (SD) by factor

In jbirstler/biostatrpts: Functions for UW-Biostatistics Report Creation

Description

Meant to be used in creating R matrix to be exported as a table

Usage

meanFunc(data, nvar, gvar = NULL, digits = 1)

Arguments

data	Data frame where nvar and gvar can be found
nvar	Character string of column in data of which means will be calculated
gvar	Character string of column in data of which means will be grouped by
digits	Number of decimals the numbers will be rounded to

Details

na.rm=TRUE is defaulted in the calculation of mean and SD

Value

Returns a string of the format mean (SD) for each of the levels in gvar. If gvar is null then mean (SD) of nvar is provided.

Author(s)

University of Wisconsin-Madison Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department, Scott Hetzel M.S.

See Also

medianFunc

Examples

outcome <- rnorm(20)
group <- factor(rep(c("A", "B"), each = 10))
d.frame <- data.frame(outcome, group)

meanFunc(d.frame, "outcome", "group")

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