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-- Bert On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Mike Gibson <megalop...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I apologize if you have already seen my question. I am new to the mailing > list and I did not get any responses the first time I posted my question. > However, I am not sure my post went through. > > Here is my situation: > I have a spreadsheet with columns of fish species (text) and length > (numbers). In the fish species column I have 5 different fish. I want R to > calculate the mean length and standard error for each species. > > I tried using the stats functin with > stats(fishdata, by=species) > > R told me it could not find function stats. Is there a library I need to > install to get stats to work? > > Mike > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
