Creates a string with count and percent

This function calculates counts and percentages for specified categories within a variable then returns the total count and total percent of those categories relative to the variable they reside in.

count_and_percent(df, var, values = NULL, format1 = TRUE)

Arguments

df

The data frame of interest.

var

A variable for which the counts and percents are calculated.

values

One or more categories of `var` to get the counts and calculate the percentages. If left blank, the function will calculate the count and percent for the category with highest count.

format1

Allows for two different formats of the count and percent. Defaults to `TRUE` which outputs the the count then the percent in parentheses "count (percent)". If `format1` is set to `FALSE` the function outputs both the count and percent in parentheses "(n=count, percent)".

Value

A string including the total count and percentage of the categories in the input variable.

Examples

count_and_percent(df = bns2_pkg_data,
                  var = q13,
                  values = c("Less than high school", "Some college"))
#> [1] "32 (65.3%)"

# Excludingthe`values` argument defaults to the level of variable with most rows
bns2_pkg_data |> count_and_percent(var = q13)
#> [1] "25 (51.0%)"