Assign Default Summary Type — assign_summary

Function inspects data and assigns a summary type when not specified in the type argument.

Usage

assign_summary_type(data, variables, value, type = NULL, cat_threshold = 10L)

Arguments

data: (data.frame)
a data frame
variables: (character)
character vector of column names in data
value: (named list)
named list of values to show for dichotomous variables, where the names are the variables
type: (named list)
named list of summary types, where names are the variables
cat_threshold: (integer)
for base R numeric classes with fewer levels than this threshold will default to a categorical summary. Default is 10L

Value

named list

Examples

assign_summary_type(
  data = trial,
  variables = c("age", "grade", "response"),
  value = NULL
)
#> $age
#> [1] "continuous"
#> 
#> $grade
#> [1] "categorical"
#> 
#> $response
#> [1] "dichotomous"
#>