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Formatting Extreme Values

Source: R/formats.R
extreme_format.Rd

[Stable]

Rtables Formatting Functions that handle extreme values.

Usage 

h_get_format_threshold(digits = 2L)

h_format_threshold(x, digits = 2L)

Arguments

digits

(integer)
number of decimal places to display.

x

(number)
value to format.

Details

For each input, apply a format to the specified number of digits. If the value is below a threshold, it returns "<0.01" e.g. if the number of digits is 2. If the value is above a threshold, it returns ">999.99" e.g. if the number of digits is 2. If it is zero, then returns "0.00".

Functions

  • h_get_format_threshold(): Internal helper function to calculate the threshold and create formatted strings used in Formatting Functions. Returns a list with elements threshold and format_string.

  • h_format_threshold(): Internal helper function to apply a threshold format to a value. Creates a formatted string to be used in Formatting Functions.

See also

Other formatting functions: format_count_fraction_fixed_dp(), format_count_fraction(), format_extreme_values_ci(), format_extreme_values(), format_fraction_fixed_dp(), format_fraction_threshold(), format_fraction(), format_xx(), formatting_functions

Examples 

h_get_format_threshold(2L)
#> $threshold
#>    low   high 
#>   0.01 999.99 
#> 
#> $format_string
#>       low      high 
#>   "<0.01" ">999.99" 
#> 

h_format_threshold(0.001)
#> [1] "<0.01"
h_format_threshold(1000)
#> [1] ">999.99"