Submitting requests

Thanks for the great package. I have a question about the bolding function. Would it be possible to add a function such as "bolding significant variables", if and when you have time ? I am not sure if this can be done currently. Many times we do not report p-values alone. I think it would be useful to bold levels/variables that are statistically significant (the point estimate, CI, and p-value). I did not know where to post such a request. I hope it is ok to do so here.

Have a great day !

Solution

You can have finer control over how the table is styled using the modify_table_styling() function. Example below!

library(gtsummary)
packageVersion("gtsummary")
#> [1] '1.7.1'

trial |> 
  tbl_summary(
    include = c(age, stage),
    missing = "no",
    by = trt
  ) |> 
  add_p() |> 
  modify_table_styling(
    column = label,
    rows = p.value < 0.8, # change this threshold to 0.05 for the standard levels of significance,
    text_format = "bold"
  ) |> 
  as_kable() # convert to kable to display on stack overflow

Characteristic	Drug A, N = 98	Drug B, N = 102	p-value
Age	46 (37, 59)	48 (39, 56)	0.7
T Stage			0.9
T1	28 (29%)	25 (25%)
T2	25 (26%)	29 (28%)
T3	22 (22%)	21 (21%)
T4	23 (23%)	27 (26%)

^{Created on 2023-05-08 with reprex v2.0.2}