R: Generate significance stars from p-values

stars.pval {gtools} | R Documentation

## Generate significance stars from p-values

### Description

Generate significance stars (e.g. '***', '**', '*', '+') from p-values using R's standard definitions.

### Usage

    stars.pval(p.value)

### Arguments

`p.value` | numeric vector of p-values

### Details

Mapping from p-value ranges to symbols:

0 - 0.001

  '***'

0.001 - 0.01

  '**'

0.01 - 0.05

  '*'

0.05 - 0.1

  '+'

0.1 - 1.0

  ” (No symbol)

### Value

A character vector containing the same number of elements as `p-value`, with an attribute "legend" providing the conversion pattern.

### Author(s)

Gregory R. Warnes greg@warnes.net

### See Also

`symnum`

### Examples

    p.val <- c(0.0004, 0.0015, 0.013, 0.044, 0.067, 0.24)
    stars.pval(p.val)

[Package gtools version 3.8.2 Index]