Table of one or more categorical variables by a single continuous variable

bycont takes a list of categorical variabls and returns median(min, max) of the single continuous variable within each level of each categorical variable. Computes Kruskall-Wallis p-values.

bycont(catvars, contvar, dat, pval = TRUE)

Arguments

catvars

is a list of the categorical variables for the rows of the table e.g. list('Gene1', 'Gene2')
contvar

is the continuous variable you want summarized by each categorical variable. Must be in quotes.
dat

is the dataset to use for analysis
pval

takes the value TRUE or FALSE indicating whether p-values should be computed. Defaults to TRUE. When TRUE, Kruskal-Wallis p-values are produced.

Value

Returns a dataframe