tableone (version 0.5.0)

print.CatTable: Format and print the CatTable class objects

Description

This is the print method for the CatTable class objects created by CreateCatTable function.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'CatTable':
print(x, digits = 1, pDigits = 3, quote = FALSE,
  missing = FALSE, explain = TRUE, printToggle = TRUE, noSpaces = FALSE,
  format = c("fp", "f", "p", "pf")[1], showAllLevels = FALSE,
  cramVars = NULL, test = TRUE, exact = NULL, CrossTable = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

The result of a call to the CreateCatTable function.

digits

Number of digits to print in the table.

pDigits

Number of digits to print for p-values.

quote

Whether to show everything in quotes. The default is FALSE. If TRUE, everything including the row and column names are quoted so that you can copy it to Excel easily.

missing

Whether to show missing data information (not implemented yet, placeholder)

explain

Whether to add explanation to the variable names, i.e., (%) is added to the variable names when percentage is shown.

printToggle

Whether to print the output. If FLASE, no output is created, and a matrix is invisibly returned.

noSpaces

Whether to remove spaces added for alignment. Use this option if you prefer to align numbers yourself in other software.

format

The default is "fp" frequency (percentage). You can also choose from "f" frequency only, "p" percentage only, and "pf" percentage (frequency).

showAllLevels

Whether to show all levels. FALSE by default, i.e., for 2-level categorical variables, only the higher level is shown to avoid redundant information.

cramVars

A character vector to specify the two-level categorical variables, for which both levels should be shown in one row.

test

Whether to show the p-values. TRUE by default. If FALSE, only the numerical summaries are shown.

exact

A character vector to specify the variables for which the p-values should be those of exact tests. By default all p-values are from large sample approximation tests (chisq.test).

CrossTable

Whether to show the cross table objects held internally using gmodels::CrossTable function. This will give an output similar to the PROC FREQ in SAS.

...

For compatibility with generic. Ignored.

Value

• It is mainly for printing the result. But this function does return a matrix containing what you see in the output invisibly. You can assign it to an object to save it.

See Also

CreateCatTable, print.CatTable, summary.CatTable, CreateContTable, print.ContTable, summary.ContTable, CreateTableOne, print.TableOne, summary.TableOne

Examples

## Load
library(tableone)

## Load Mayo Clinic Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Data
library(survival)
data(pbc)
## Check variables
head(pbc)

## Create an overall table for categorical variables
catVars <- c("status","ascites","hepato","spiders","edema","stage")
catTableOverall <- CreateCatTable(vars = catVars, data = pbc)

## Simply typing the object name will invoke the print.CatTable method,
## which will show the sample size, frequencies and percentages.
## For 2-level variables, only the higher level is shown for simplicity.
catTableOverall

## If you need to show both levels for some 2-level factors, use cramVars
print(catTableOverall, cramVars = "hepato")

## Use the showAllLevels argument to see all levels for all variables.
print(catTableOverall, showAllLevels = TRUE)

## You can choose form frequencies ("f") and/or percentages ("p") or both.
## "fp" frequency (percentage) is the default. Row names change accordingly.
print(catTableOverall, format = "f")
print(catTableOverall, format = "p")

## To further examine the variables, use the summary.CatTable method,
## which will show more details.
summary(catTableOverall)

## The table can be stratified by one or more variables
catTableBySexTrt <- CreateCatTable(vars = catVars,
                                   strata = c("sex","trt"), data = pbc)

## print now includes p-values which are by default calculated by chisq.test.
## It is formatted at the decimal place specified by the pDigits argument
## (3 by default). It does <0.001 for you.
catTableBySexTrt

## The exact argument toggles the p-values to the exact test result from
## fisher.test. It will show which ones are from exact tests.
print(catTableBySexTrt, exact = "ascites")

## summary now includes both types of p-values
summary(catTableBySexTrt)

## If your work flow includes copying to Excel and Word when writing manuscripts,
## you may benefit from the quote argument. This will quote everything so that
## Excel does not mess up the cells.
print(catTableBySexTrt, exact = "ascites", quote = TRUE)

## If you want to center-align values in Word, use noSpaces option.
print(catTableBySexTrt, exact = "ascites", quote = TRUE, noSpaces = TRUE)