Hi Christabel, Take a look at the function basicStats in the fBasics package. Here is an example:
library(fBasics) set.seed(123) x=rnorm(20,24,2) basicStats(x) #x #nobs 20.000000 #NAs 0.000000 #Minimum 20.066766 #Maximum 27.573826 #1. Quartile 23.012892 #3. Quartile 25.097454 #Mean 24.283248 #Median 24.239970 #Sum 485.664952 #SE Mean 0.434989 #LCL Mean 23.372805 #UCL Mean 25.193690 #Variance 3.784311 #Stdev 1.945331 #Skewness -0.062495 #Kurtosis -0.547891 HTH, Jorge On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:07 AM, christabel_jane prudencio < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have an external data (.txt) for > annual peak flood. The first column is the year, second column is the > observation date, and the last is the observed discharge. My task is to > calculate the mean, skewness and kurtosis of the said data. I was advised > to use > read.table() to read the entire data. Please help me on how to perform the > required computation. I am obviously a new user of this statistical > software. > Thank you so much for helping. > > Christabel Jane P. Rubio > M.S. Student > Water Resources Engineering > Dept. of Construction & Environmental Engineering > Kongju National University (Cheonan Campus) > 102th Office,The 5th Engineering Building, > 275, Budae-dong, Cheonan-si, Chungnam-do, 330-717, Korea > TEL : +82-41-521-9316 > FAX : +82-41-568-0287 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.
