It exists in many packages: e1071 was one of the earliest.

Other packages include

GLDEX, HyperbolicDist, QuantPsyc, TSA, agricolae, fUtilities, modeest, moments, npde, s20x

It is also a common exercise in basic R programming courses.

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Williams, Robin wrote:

Hi,
Is there a function in R to calculate the coefficient of skewness of
some data? I had expected there to be one, but can find no information
about it.
Thanks for any pointers.


Robin Williams
Met Office summer intern - Health Forecasting
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