Assign Default Summary Type

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

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"
#>