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On Mar 9, 2011, at 6:13 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 9, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Tomii <dioge...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I try to calculate descriptive statistics for one of the variables in the >> data frame, however command sapply calculates these statistics for every >> value of the variable separately. How to make it calculate range (as well as >> other statistics) for all column? >> > If you want range of all columns try: > > sapply(as1, range) To expand: you sent separate values to range. If you had tried: sapply(as1["trust"], range) pply(as1["trust"], range) ... you should have succeeded. > > -- > David >> Here are commands and results: >> >>> as1$trust >> [1] 5.957510 5.888664 6.168135 6.419472 5.668796 6.026923 >> 6.456721 7.017946 5.294411 >> >> [10] 7.296844 6.479167 5.009000 7.149073 5.932667 5.991000 >> 5.327137 5.453230 5.650350 >> [19] 5.295608 5.518337 4.875000 6.637000 5.891014 6.726055 >> 10.695650 5.490983 7.290476 >> [28] 5.728543 4.103689 8.421315 >>> des.trust <- sapply(as1$trust, range, na.rm=TRUE) >>> des.trust >> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] >> [,8] [,9] [,10] >> [1,] 5.95751 5.888664 6.168135 6.419472 5.668796 6.026923 6.456721 >> 7.017946 5.294411 7.296844 >> [2,] 5.95751 5.888664 6.168135 6.419472 5.668796 6.026923 6.456721 >> 7.017946 5.294411 7.296844 >> >> [,11] [,12] [,13] [,14] [,15] [,16] [,17] [,18] >> [,19] [,20] [,21] >> [1,] 6.479167 5.009 7.149073 5.932667 5.991 5.327137 5.45323 5.65035 >> 5.295608 5.518337 4.875 >> [2,] 6.479167 5.009 7.149073 5.932667 5.991 5.327137 5.45323 5.65035 >> 5.295608 5.518337 4.875 >> >> [,22] [,23] [,24] [,25] [,26] [,27] [,28] >> [,29] [,30] >> [1,] 6.637 5.891014 6.726055 10.69565 5.490983 7.290476 5.728543 >> 4.103689 8.421315 >> [2,] 6.637 5.891014 6.726055 10.69565 5.490983 7.290476 5.728543 >> 4.103689 8.421315 >> >> >> tomii <t.klep...@gmail.com> >> >> [[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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
