OK, never-mind. I found length(x). It's been a long day.
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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