Thanks a bunch! They all are helpful :) On 2/10/09, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > William Revelle wrote: >> At 6:41 PM -0500 2/9/09, David Winsemius wrote: >>> describe() in Hmisc provides much of the rest of what you asked for: >>> >>>> describe(pref900$TCHDL) >>> pref900$TCHDL >>> n missing unique Mean .05 .10 .25 .50 >>> .75 .90 .95 >>> 906190 4469 16051 4.123 2.320 2.557 3.061 3.841 >>> 4.886 6.054 6.867 >>> >>> lowest : 0.9342 1.0200 1.0522 1.1008 1.1061, highest: 19.8696 >>> 20.1667 20.7619 21.6364 21.7200 >>> >> >> As does describe in the psych package >> >> describe(sat.act) >>> describe(sat.act) >> var n mean sd median trimmed mad min max range >> skew kurtosis se >> gender 1 700 1.65 0.48 2 1.68 0.00 1 2 1 >> -0.61 -1.62 0.02 >> education 2 700 3.16 1.43 3 3.31 1.48 0 5 5 >> -0.68 -0.07 0.05 >> age 3 700 25.59 9.50 22 23.86 5.93 13 65 52 >> 1.64 2.42 0.36 >> ACT 4 700 28.55 4.82 29 28.84 4.45 3 36 33 >> -0.66 0.53 0.18 >> SATV 5 700 612.23 112.90 620 619.45 118.61 200 800 600 >> -0.64 0.33 4.27 >> SATQ 6 687 610.22 115.64 620 617.25 118.61 200 800 600 >> -0.59 -0.02 4.41 >> >> see also describe.by to break this down by some grouping variable. >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> >>> On Feb 9, 2009, at 6:04 PM, phoebe kong wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm wondering if there is a function that can return summary >>>> statistics: >>>> N=total number of observation, # missing, mean, median, range, standard >>>> deviation. >>>> >>>> As I know, summary() returns some of info I've mentioned above. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> SY >>>> > > and if you want to roll your own descriptive stats, the describe > function in the prettyR package (confusing, isn't it?) > > Jim > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >
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