Hello,

A simple change to your function partly answers to both questions.


Table2 <- function(formula, data) {
     temp <- t.test(formula, data)
     mydf <- data.frame(dep=temp$data.name,
              female=temp$estimate[1],male=temp$estimate[2],
              p=temp$p.value,
              CILow=temp$conf.int[1],CIHigh=temp$conf.int[2])
     row.names(mydf) <- NULL
     mydf
}
Table2(value ~ sex, data)


If you want the outcome variable to be called just "value", inside the 
function use

dname <- rownames(attr(terms(formula), "factors"))[1]
mydf <- data.frame(dep=dname, [...etc...]


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas


Em 07-01-2013 14:44, John Sorkin escreveu:
> Windows 7
> R 2.12.1
> I am trying to write a function (see sample code below) that will take the output of a t-test and produce results suitable for a table.
> I have two questions
> (1) You will note that the name of the outcome variable, which is "value" in the input is replaced by the string "outcome by class" in the data frame produced by my function. How can I make my function put the name of the variable being analyzed,, i.e "value" in the output data frame
> (2) How can I pass the entire input data to the function so my call to the function will not have to be in its current ugly form, i.e.
> Table1(data$value,data$sex)
> and instead could just be
> Table1(value,sex,data=data)
>   
>   
> x <- data.frame(value=rnorm(20)  ,sex=rep("Male",  20))
> y <- data.frame(value=rnorm(20,4),sex=rep("Female",20))
> data <- rbind(x,y)
> temp <- t.test(value~sex,data=data)
> temp
> v<-data.frame(dep=temp$data.name,
>             female=temp$estimate[1],male=temp$estimate[2],
>             p=temp$p.value,
>             CILow=temp$conf.int[1],CIHigh=temp$conf.int[2])
> row.names(v) <- NULL
>   
>   
>   
> Table1 <- function(outcome,class) {
> temp <- t.test(outcome~ class)
> mydf <- data.frame(dep=temp$data.name,
>               female=temp$estimate[1],male=temp$estimate[2],
>               p=temp$p.value,
>               CILow=temp$conf.int[1],CIHigh=temp$conf.int[2])
> row.names(mydf) <- NULL
> mydf}
> Table1(data$value,data$sex)
>   
>   
>   
> Thank you,
> John
>   
>   
>   
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