formatSummarizedNumerics function

Reformat numeric summarize output as one column per variable, similar to R summary

The summarizeNumeric function returns a data frame with the variable names on the rows and summary statistics (mean, median, std. deviation) in the columns.This transposes and abbreviates the information to look more like R summary.

formatSummarizedNumerics(x, ...)

Arguments

• x: numeric summaries from summarize function
• ...: Other arguments, such as digits

Returns

An R table object

Examples

set.seed(21234)
X <- matrix(rnorm(10000), ncol = 10, dimnames = list(NULL, paste0("xvar", 1:10)))
Xsum <- summarize(X)
Xsum$numerics
formatSummarizedNumerics(Xsum$numerics)
formatSummarizedNumerics(Xsum$numerics, digits = 5)
Xsum.fmt <- formatSummarizedNumerics(Xsum$numerics)
str(Xsum.fmt)

Author(s)

Paul Johnson