dtr: dtr: Descriptive Table R

In jrmie/dtr: Descriptive Tables with R in the Field of Epidemiology

Description

The purpose of the package is to quickly get a numerical description of a set of variables as well a statistical comparison between groups of interest. This is an usual task in medical researches as clinical trials or epidemiological studies to better know the population, but reporting it may become tedious.

Create

The main function dt_create takes a dataset, a grouping variable and additionnal arguments to personnalized the output (e.g. number of digits, statistical comparisons, overall description). The function return a dt object.

Inspect

Original descriptive table as characters data frame can be extract from the dt object. Details of each statistical test can be extract ...

Rendering to report

dt objects from dt_create can be pass to

• dt_to_html or dt_to_latex to get the corresponding HTML or LaTeX code generated by the kableExtra package

• dt_to_flextable to get the corresponding flextable object generated by the flextable package

• print method to get an ASCII version of the table

Output returned by this 3 functions can be directly use in Rmarkdown documents

Export

Instead of use rendering functions directly in Rmarkdown documents, tables outputed from dt_to_html, dt_to_latex or dt_to_flextable can be save as .html, .pdf or .docx files with the dt_save function

jrmie/dtr documentation built on April 22, 2020, 10:32 p.m.