Mimic tabulate command from Stata in R

Question

I\'m trying to get a 2 way table in R similar to this one from Stata. I was trying to use CrossTable from gmodels package, but the tab

Answer 1

Maybe I'm missing something here. The default settings for CrossTable seem to provide essentially what you are looking for.

Here is CrossTable with minimal arguments. (I've loaded the dataset as "temp".) Note that the results are the same as what you posted from the Stata output (you just need to multiply by 100 if you want the result as a percentage).

library(gmodels)
with(temp, CrossTable(cursmoke1, cursmoke2, missing.include=TRUE))

   Cell Contents
|-------------------------|
|                       N |
| Chi-square contribution |
|           N / Row Total |
|           N / Col Total |
|         N / Table Total |
|-------------------------|

Total Observations in Table:  4434 

             | cursmoke2 
   cursmoke1 |        No |       Yes |        NA | Row Total | 
-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
          No |      1898 |       131 |       224 |      2253 | 
             |   541.582 |   635.078 |     4.022 |           | 
             |     0.842 |     0.058 |     0.099 |     0.508 | 
             |     0.862 |     0.076 |     0.444 |           | 
             |     0.428 |     0.030 |     0.051 |           | 
-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
         Yes |       305 |      1596 |       280 |      2181 | 
             |   559.461 |   656.043 |     4.154 |           | 
             |     0.140 |     0.732 |     0.128 |     0.492 | 
             |     0.138 |     0.924 |     0.556 |           | 
             |     0.069 |     0.360 |     0.063 |           | 
-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
Column Total |      2203 |      1727 |       504 |      4434 | 
             |     0.497 |     0.389 |     0.114 |           | 
-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|

Alternatively, you can use format="SPSS" if you want the numbers displayed as percentages.

with(temp, CrossTable(cursmoke1, cursmoke2, missing.include=TRUE, format="SPSS"))

   Cell Contents
|-------------------------|
|                   Count |
| Chi-square contribution |
|             Row Percent |
|          Column Percent |
|           Total Percent |
|-------------------------|

Total Observations in Table:  4434 

             | cursmoke2 
   cursmoke1 |       No  |      Yes  |       NA  | Row Total | 
-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
          No |     1898  |      131  |      224  |     2253  | 
             |  541.582  |  635.078  |    4.022  |           | 
             |   84.243% |    5.814% |    9.942% |   50.812% | 
             |   86.155% |    7.585% |   44.444% |           | 
             |   42.806% |    2.954% |    5.052% |           | 
-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
         Yes |      305  |     1596  |      280  |     2181  | 
             |  559.461  |  656.043  |    4.154  |           | 
             |   13.984% |   73.177% |   12.838% |   49.188% | 
             |   13.845% |   92.415% |   55.556% |           | 
             |    6.879% |   35.995% |    6.315% |           | 
-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
Column Total |     2203  |     1727  |      504  |     4434  | 
             |   49.684% |   38.949% |   11.367% |           | 
-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|

Update: prop.table()

Just FYI (to save you the tedious work you did in making your own data.frame as you did), you may also be interested in the prop.table() function.

Again, using the data you linked to and assuming it is named "temp", the following gives you the underlying data from which you can construct your data.frame. You may also be interested in looking into the functions margin.table() or addmargins():

## Your basic table
CurSmoke <- with(temp, table(cursmoke1, cursmoke2, useNA = "ifany"))
CurSmoke
#          cursmoke2
# cursmoke1   No  Yes 
#       No  1898  131  224
#       Yes  305 1596  280

## Row proportions
prop.table(CurSmoke, 1) # * 100 # If you so desire
#          cursmoke2
# cursmoke1         No        Yes       
#       No  0.84243231 0.05814470 0.09942299
#       Yes 0.13984411 0.73177442 0.12838148

## Column proportions
prop.table(CurSmoke, 2) # * 100 # If you so desire
#          cursmoke2
# cursmoke1         No        Yes       
#       No  0.86155243 0.07585408 0.44444444
#       Yes 0.13844757 0.92414592 0.55555556

## Cell proportions
prop.table(CurSmoke)    # * 100 # If you so desire
#          cursmoke2
# cursmoke1         No        Yes       
#       No  0.42805593 0.02954443 0.05051872
#       Yes 0.06878665 0.35994587 0.06314840