http://www.statmethods.net/stats/descriptives.html
the psych package seems to do what you wan set.seed(235) mydata <- data.frame(aa = rnorm(20), bb = rnorm(20) , cc = rnorm(20)) library(psych) describe(mydata) John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: powella...@gmail.com > Sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 14:44:44 -0500 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] mean and kurtosis > > Need help! > I know how to get the mean and kurtosis for a single variable but I am > reading in an excel file that has several columns representing variables. > I > need a way to find descriptive statistics across ALL the variables? > > [[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. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails ______________________________________________ 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.
