Summarize numeric vector to statistical summary

Summarize numeric vector to statistical summary

Usage

num2stat(x, digits = 1, method = 1, p = NULL)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector

digits

integer indicating the number of decimal places

method

An integer indicating methods for continuous variables. Possible values in methods are 1 forces analysis as normal-distributed 2 forces analysis as continuous non-normal 3 performs a Shapiro-Wilk test or nortest::ad.test to decide between normal or non-normal Default value is 1.

p

A numeric

Value

A character vector of length 1

Examples

library(moonBook)
num2stat(acs$age)
#> [1] "63.3 ± 11.7"
num2stat(acs$age,method=2)
#> [1] "64.0 (55.0 to 72.0)"