stars.pval {gtools}

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 [e-mail]

See Also

symnum

Examples

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