TernTables: Publication-Ready Summary Tables and Statistical Testing for
Clinical Research
Generates publication-ready summary tables for clinical research,
supporting descriptive summaries and comparisons across two or three groups.
The package streamlines the analytical workflow by detecting variable types
and applying appropriate statistical tests (Welch t-test, Wilcoxon rank-sum,
Welch ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, Chi-squared, or Fisher's exact test). Results are
formatted as 'tibble' objects and can be exported to 'Word' or 'Excel' using
the 'officer', 'flextable', and 'writexl' packages. Optional pairwise
post-hoc testing for three-group comparisons (Games-Howell and Dunn's
test) is available via the 'rstatix' package. Example data are derived
from the landmark adjuvant colon cancer trial described in
Moertel et al. (1990) <doi:10.1056/NEJM199002083220602>.
| Version: |
1.6.4 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: |
cli, dplyr (≥ 1.0.0), epitools, flextable (≥ 0.9.0), magrittr, officer (≥ 0.4.6), rlang, stats, stringr, tibble, withr, writexl |
| Suggests: |
knitr, multcompView, rmarkdown, rstatix, survival, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: |
2026-03-26 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.TernTables |
| Author: |
Joshua D. Preston 
[aut, cre],
Helen Abadiotakis
[aut],
Ailin Tang [aut],
Clayton J. Rust
[aut],
Joshua L. Chan
[aut] |
| Maintainer: |
Joshua D. Preston <joshua.preston at emory.edu> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/jdpreston30/TernTables/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/jdpreston30/TernTables,
https://tern-tables.com/ |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Citation: |
TernTables citation info |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
TernTables results |
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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.