R: function to generate summary table for quantitative data

catable {GenABEL}

R Documentation

function to generate summary table for quantitative data

Description

This function makes a table with number of observations which fall between user-defined categories

Usage

catable(data, categories = c(quantile(data,c(0.01,0.1,0.5,0.9,0.99),na.rm=TRUE)), 
			cumulative = FALSE, na.rm = TRUE, digits = 3)

Arguments

`data`	A vector of numerics
`categories`	vector containing desired cut-off levels
`cumulative`	whether cumulative distribution should be shown
`na.rm`	how to treat NAs
`digits`	number of digits to be saved in rounding

Value

table with number and proportion of observations falling between categories

Author(s)

Yurii Aulchenko

Examples

	require(GenABEL.data)
	data(srdta)
	callr <- summary(srdta@gtdata)[,"CallRate"]
	catable(callr,c(0.93,0.95,0.99))
	catable(callr)
	catable(callr,cum=TRUE)

[Package GenABEL version 1.8-0 Index]