I think the function describe() in the package "psych" will give you want you want. There are other similar functions in the library "Simple" as well.
Harold nmarti wrote: > > I'm looking for a function that lists a few summary stats for a column (or > row) of data. I'm aware of summary(x), but that does not give me what I'm > looking for. > I'm actually looking for something that is very similar to the descriptive > statistics tool in excel; i.e. Mean, Std. Error, Std. Deviation, Kurtosis. > I'm positive that I came across a function that did this (possibly in > Rmetrics), but now I can't find it. I lost it in the endless mass of R > functions. > > Any help would be appreciated. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Summary-Stats-%28not-summary%28x%29%29-tp18363275p18363387.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
