The goal of ratetest is to test if the rate of a event in two groups is significantly different, also calculating the 95% confidence interval with an exact poisson distribution
You can install the released version of ratetest from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("lucavd/ratetest")library(ratetest)
rate_test(5,8,182.8,165.1)
#> # A tibble: 3 x 5
#> var rate lower upper p.value
#> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr>
#> 1 tot 3.74 1.99 6.39 ""
#> 2 a 2.74 0.888 6.38 ""
#> 3 b 4.85 2.09 9.55 "0.46007"