Helper function for labels in gtsummary — label

Function to select labels from list of label pairs (format: age~"Age"). Alternative is to use attributes, eg from library(Hmisc).

Usage

label_select(lst, vec)

Arguments

lst: List of variables and labels (format: age~"Age")
vec: Vector of variables to be subset from the list

Value

List of labels ordered like vec, formatted like lst

Examples

vars<-c("hypertension", "diabetes", "mrs_1")
labels_all<-list(rtreat~"Trial treatment",
civil~"Cohabitation",
diabetes~"Known diabetes", 
hypertension~"Known hypertension", 
mrs_1~"One month mRS", 
mrs_6~"Six months mRS", 
'[Intercept]'~"Intercept")
label_select(labels_all,vars)
#> [[1]]
#> hypertension ~ "Known hypertension"
#> <environment: 0x5579d4abed28>
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> diabetes ~ "Known diabetes"
#> <environment: 0x5579d4abed28>
#> 
#> [[3]]
#> mrs_1 ~ "One month mRS"
#> <environment: 0x5579d4abed28>
#> 

## With gtsummary::tbl_summary()
#stRoke::talos[vars] |> 
#gtsummary::tbl_summary(label = label_select(labels_all,vars))