Generating Summary Tables for levels of a categorical response.

This function returns summaries of numerical and categorical predictors based on the levels of a categorical response variable.

Usage

briefSummary(x, response, maxsum = 7)

Arguments

x

a data.frame to be summarized

response

a character string containing the name of the categorical response variable.

maxsum

a numerical value (default 7) determining the number of summary details generated. For numerical predictors, this is passed to summary(), and for categorical variables, this is the maximum number of levels shown in the output.

Value

briefSummary returns a list containing two objects, one a summary table for the numerical variables (called Numerical) and the other a list of tables (called Categorical), each table summarizing one categorical predictor.