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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.

Usage

formatSummarizedNumerics(x, ...)

Arguments

x

numeric summaries from summarize function

...

Other arguments, such as digits

Value

An R table object

Author

Paul Johnson

Examples

set.seed(21234)
X <- matrix(rnorm(10000), ncol = 10, dimnames = list(NULL, paste0("xvar", 1:10)))
Xsum <- summarize(X)
Xsum$numerics
#>            min          med      max          mean        sd     skewness
#> X_1  -3.105406  0.051946174 2.761531 -0.0004716396 0.9773594 -0.119453937
#> X_2  -3.171537  0.014717475 3.467011  0.0085730756 1.0090278  0.069454635
#> X_3  -4.173551 -0.012773663 2.584847 -0.0105729550 0.9643395 -0.164204466
#> X_4  -3.202678  0.014078438 3.739010  0.0094565296 1.0005261  0.064228233
#> X_5  -3.671592 -0.002751121 3.623525  0.0087940328 1.0493510  0.030401252
#> X_6  -2.911073  0.031108318 3.480088  0.0086429253 0.9797970  0.026653657
#> X_7  -3.012280  0.015947795 3.432372 -0.0084816622 0.9703977  0.023956277
#> X_8  -2.809011 -0.011710940 3.276530  0.0021537940 0.9739862  0.007185047
#> X_9  -2.837736 -0.030497353 3.063206 -0.0026433372 1.0099511  0.093501127
#> X_10 -2.930851 -0.020810063 3.620553 -0.0325085509 1.0278967 -0.021100342
#>         kurtosis nobs nmissing
#> X_1  -0.30163251 1000        0
#> X_2  -0.01270508 1000        0
#> X_3   0.08287096 1000        0
#> X_4  -0.02818313 1000        0
#> X_5   0.08364179 1000        0
#> X_6  -0.08617585 1000        0
#> X_7  -0.05547183 1000        0
#> X_8  -0.14821084 1000        0
#> X_9  -0.13758498 1000        0
#> X_10 -0.13467103 1000        0
formatSummarizedNumerics(Xsum$numerics)
#>            X_1      X_2      X_3      X_4      X_5      X_6      X_7   
#> min        -3.105   -3.172   -4.174   -3.203   -3.672   -2.911   -3.012
#> med         0.052    0.015   -0.013    0.014   -0.003    0.031    0.016
#> max         2.762    3.467    2.585    3.739    3.624    3.480    3.432
#> mean        0        0.009   -0.011    0.009    0.009    0.009   -0.008
#> sd          0.977    1.009    0.964    1.001    1.049    0.980    0.970
#> skewness   -0.119    0.069   -0.164    0.064    0.030    0.027    0.024
#> kurtosis   -0.302   -0.013    0.083   -0.028    0.084   -0.086   -0.055
#> nobs     1000     1000     1000     1000     1000     1000     1000    
#> nmissing    0        0        0        0        0        0        0    
#>            X_8      X_9      X_10  
#> min        -2.809   -2.838   -2.931
#> med        -0.012   -0.030   -0.021
#> max         3.277    3.063    3.621
#> mean        0.002   -0.003   -0.033
#> sd          0.974    1.010    1.028
#> skewness    0.007    0.094   -0.021
#> kurtosis   -0.148   -0.138   -0.135
#> nobs     1000     1000     1000    
#> nmissing    0        0        0    
formatSummarizedNumerics(Xsum$numerics, digits = 5)
#>              X_1        X_2        X_3        X_4        X_5        X_6   
#> min        -3.10541   -3.17154   -4.17355   -3.20268   -3.67159   -2.91107
#> med         0.05195    0.01472   -0.01277    0.01408   -0.00275    0.03111
#> max         2.76153    3.46701    2.58485    3.73901    3.62352    3.48009
#> mean       -0.00047    0.00857   -0.01057    0.00946    0.00879    0.00864
#> sd          0.97736    1.00903    0.96434    1.00053    1.04935    0.97980
#> skewness   -0.11945    0.06945   -0.16420    0.06423    0.03040    0.02665
#> kurtosis   -0.30163   -0.01271    0.08287   -0.02818    0.08364   -0.08618
#> nobs     1000       1000       1000       1000       1000       1000      
#> nmissing    0          0          0          0          0          0      
#>              X_7        X_8        X_9       X_10   
#> min        -3.01228   -2.80901   -2.83774   -2.93085
#> med         0.01595   -0.01171   -0.03050   -0.02081
#> max         3.43237    3.27653    3.06321    3.62055
#> mean       -0.00848    0.00215   -0.00264   -0.03251
#> sd          0.97040    0.97399    1.00995    1.02790
#> skewness    0.02396    0.00719    0.09350   -0.02110
#> kurtosis   -0.05547   -0.14821   -0.13758   -0.13467
#> nobs     1000       1000       1000       1000      
#> nmissing    0          0          0          0      
Xsum.fmt <- formatSummarizedNumerics(Xsum$numerics)
str(Xsum.fmt)
#>  'table' chr [1:9, 1:10] "  -3.105" "   0.052" "   2.762" "   0 " ...
#>  - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
#>   ..$ : chr [1:9] "min" "med" "max" "mean" ...
#>   ..$ : chr [1:10] "  X_1" "  X_2" "  X_3" "  X_4" ...