make.table2 {litRiddle}

Make Table of Two Variables and Plot

Description

A function to make a table of frequency counts for two variables, and to plot a histogram of the results.

Usage

make.table2(table.of = NULL, 
    split = NULL, 
    plot = TRUE, 
    xlab = table.of, 
    ylab = "counts", 
    title = table.of,
    barcolor = "grey", 
    barfill = "darkgrey")

Arguments

table.of

which variable will be chosen? If not sure what variables are there, try typing get.columns() first.

split

the variable that will be used to split the data: see the Examples section below for, well, some examples.

plot

do you want a plot to be plotted? Default: TRUE.

xlab

name of the X axis

ylab

name of the Y axis

title

title of the plot

barcolor

outline color of the content

barfill

color used to fill the bars

Details

Unlike make.table, this function provides a comparison of two variables at a time, or to be more precise: a distribution of an indicated variable when subdivided into two or more groups. The function provides the values themselves, but also a final histrogram.

Value

A character vector containing one chosen variable, optionally followed by a plot.

Author(s)

Saskia Lensink, Maciej Eder

References

https://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/

See Also

make.table, get.columns

Examples

make.table2(table.of = "age.resp", split = "gender.resp")
make.table2(table.of = "literariness.read", split = "gender.author")



# Note that you can only provide an argument to the 'split' variable 
# that has less than 31 unique values, to avoid uninterpretable outputs:
make.table2(table.of = "age.resp", split = "zipcode") 

# You can also adjust the x label, y label, title, and colors.
make.table2(table.of = "age.resp", split = "gender.resp", 
  xlab = "age respondent", ylab = "number of people", 
  barcolor = "purple", barfill = "yellow")
make.table2(table.of = "literariness.read", split = "gender.author", 
  xlab = "Overall literariness scores", ylab = "number of people", 
  barcolor = "black", barfill = "darkred")