The two describe functions have it. Maybe the one in psych too?
Also see valid.n in the prettyR package and of course there is length,
nrows and dim.
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:53 PM, nmarti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Gabor.
> I was able to create a function that works really well. One more quick
> question if you don't mind.
> I want to report the number of observations also (i.e. n = 5420). What
> function would do this? I really can't find anything that would just simply
> count the number of x's.
> Thanks again.
>
>
> Gabor Csardi wrote:
>>
>> Why don't you write it for yourself, it takes less time than writing
>> an email:
>>
>> mysummary <- function(x) {
>> require(plotrix)
>> require(e1071)
>> c(Mean=mean(x), Std.Error=std.error(x), Std.Deviation=sd(x),
>> Kurtosis=kurtosis(x))
>> }
>>
>> Gabor
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:15:00AM -0700, 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.
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