Provides statistical summary of the numeric variables for a dataframe, such as the mean, median, maximum and minimum for the numeric variables.

Provides statistical summary of the numeric variables for a dataframe, such as the mean, median, maximum and minimum for the numeric variables.

describe_num_var(dataframe, num_vars)

Arguments

dataframe	tbl. The dataframe to be inspected.
num_vars	vector of character strings of the names of the numeric variables the user want to explore.

Value

list. A list containing a dataframe with a statistical summary and a ggplot object with histograms of numeric variables faceted by each variable.

Examples

X <- dplyr::tibble(type = c('Car', 'Bus', 'Car'), height = c(10, 20, 15), width = c(10, 15, 13))
num_vars <- c('height', 'width')
result <- describe_num_var(X, num_vars)
result$summary
#> # A tibble: 7 x 3
#>   summary height width 
#>   <chr>   <chr>  <chr> 
#> 1 25%     12.5   11.5  
#> 2 75%     17.5   14    
#> 3 min     10     10    
#> 4 max     20     15    
#> 5 median  15     13    
#> 6 mean    15     12.667
#> 7 sd      5      2.517 
result$plot