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Report statistics from summary tables inline

Usage

# S3 method for class 'gtsummary'
inline_text(x, variable, level = NULL, column = NULL, pattern = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

(gtsummary)
gtsummary object

variable

(tidy-select)
A single variable name of statistic to present

level

(string)
Level of the variable to display for categorical variables. Default is NULL

column

(tidy-select)
Column name to return from x$table_body.

pattern

(string)
String indicating the statistics to return. Uses glue::glue() formatting. Default is NULL

...

These dots are for future extensions and must be empty.

Value

A string

column + pattern

Some gtsummary tables report multiple statistics in a single cell, e.g. "{mean} ({sd})" in tbl_summary() or tbl_svysummary(). We often need to report just the mean or the SD, and that can be accomplished by using both the column= and pattern= arguments. When both of these arguments are specified, the column argument selects the column to report statistics from, and the pattern argument specifies which statistics to report, e.g. inline_text(x, column = "stat_1", pattern = "{mean}") reports just the mean from a tbl_summary(). This is not supported for all tables.