Construct labels — construct

This function creates a new column or label, merging estimates and standard errors with significant estimates represented in bold or as superscript (via brace_label_est), and standard errors in brackets, if needed (via brace_label_se). NAs are converted to empty strings. Main usage is for plotting tables and brace labels.

Usage

construct_label(
  dat,
  column_est = NULL,
  column_se = NULL,
  column_sig_bold = NULL,
  column_sig_superscript = NULL,
  sig_superscript_letter = NULL,
  round_est = 0,
  round_se = 1,
  plot_settings = plotsettings_tablebarplot()
)

Arguments

dat: Data frame with the columns that should be merged into labels.
column_est: Character string for the column with the estimates.
column_se: Character string for the column with the standard errors.
column_sig_bold: Character string for the column with the significant estimates that should determine the bold printing.
column_sig_superscript: Character string for the column with the significant estimates that should determine the superscript.
sig_superscript_letter: Character string for the letter that should be used for the superscript.
round_est: Rounding of brace_label_est.
round_se: Rounding of brace_label_se.
plot_settings: Named list constructed with plotsettings_lineplot(). Defaults to a list with all settings set to 0. There are several predefined lists with optimized settings for different plots. See plotsettings_lineplot() for an overview.

Value

The data frame with an added column for the constructed label.

Examples

# example data frame
dat <- data.frame(
  names = c("Berlin", "Hamburg", "Hessen", "Niedersachsen", "Saarland"),
  estimate = c(400, 650, 380, 500, 600),
  se = c(0.1, 0.45, 1, 0.27, 0.9),
  p_estimate = c(FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE)
)