thekidsbiostats

This package contains formatting templates and a suite of helper functions used and developed by the Biostatistics team at The Kids Research Institute Australia.

All templates and themes in this package use the “Barlow” font family which is not installed by default on many machines. It can be installed here:

• https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow
• https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow+Semi+Condensed

Getting started

Installing the package

The Kids Research Institute Australia biostats package can be installed from the R-universe with the following:

install.packages("thekidsbiostats", repos = "https://the-kids-biostats.r-universe.dev", dependencies = TRUE)

Alternatively, the package can be installed via remotes:

remotes::install_github("The-Kids-Biostats/thekidsbiostats", build_vignettes = TRUE, dependencies = TRUE)

Registering fonts

Because the “Barlow” font is utilised by default on many machines, this font must be downloaded, installed, and then registered so R can recognise it. To register the font in R, simply run:

extrafont::font_import()

• thekids_table() requires the font to be installed at a system level, else a default font family will be applied (sans).
• theme_thekids() can either call the font from the system (after registration), else a fall-back to install the font (using a Google API) will be called.

Accessing vignettes

At the moment, vignettes exist for:

• Data manipulation functions (data_manipulations)
• Model output functions (model_output)
• Project workflow functions (project_workflow)
• “The Kids” theming functions (thekids_theming)
• Miscellaneous functions (miscellaneous)

Accessing these vignettes can be done two ways:

1. Via the package website.
2. Using utils::browseVignettes(package = "thekidsbiostats")
   • Opens vignette via web browser.
3. Using vignette(x, package = "thekidsbiostats") where x is the function name
   • Opens the vignette in the “Help” tab of RStudio.

Using the package

See here for a broad walkthough of the package and its functionalities.

Workflow creation

To make use of our project structure templates for a new project, follow the following steps:

1. Open RStudio.
2. Navigate to the “Create New Project” addin, or run thekidsbiostats::create_project().
   • These functionalities contain various parameters to tweak how you would like to set up your project structure which can be read in the documentation.
   • Branded Quarto templates can be created within the “Create Project” addin, directly via the “Create Report Template” addin or by running thekidsbiostats::create_template().
     • Either .html or .docx templates can be created.

Theming

Using functions that automatically apply a set of formatting options to plots and tables saves time, allowing us to focus on the analysis and interpretation.

• Formatting plots: theme_thekids()
• Formatting tables: thekids_table()

Helper functions

• thekids_model()
• round_vec() & round_df()
• fct_case_when()