Hi here,
may be you can play with reshape, or may be aggregate and reshape...
good luck
milton
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:17 AM, rajclinasia <r...@clinasia.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Every one,
> I have a dataframe "class" with "name", "sex", "age", "height", "Weight".
> if i caluclate summary statistics with the below code
>
> numSummary(class[,c("Height", "Weight")], groups=class$Name,
> statistics=c("mean", "sd", "quantiles"), quantiles=c(0,
> .25,.5,.75,1))
>
> iam getting output like this
>
> Variable: Height
> mean sd 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% n
> Alfred 69.0 NA 69.0 69.0 69.0 69.0 69.0 1
> Alice 56.5 NA 56.5 56.5 56.5 56.5 56.5 1
> Barbara 65.3 NA 65.3 65.3 65.3 65.3 65.3 1
> Carol 62.8 NA 62.8 62.8 62.8 62.8 62.8 1
>
> Variable: Weight
> mean sd 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% n
> Alfred 112.5 NA 112.5 112.5 112.5 112.5 112.5 1
> Alice 84.0 NA 84.0 84.0 84.0 84.0 84.0 1
> Barbara 98.0 NA 98.0 98.0 98.0 98.0 98.0 1
> Carol 102.5 NA 102.5 102.5 102.5 102.5 102.5 1
>
> now my question is i want output like this
>
> height weight
> Alfred mean
> sd
> 0%
> 25%
> 50%
> 75%
> 100%
> n
> Alice mean
> sd
> 0%
> 25%
> 50%
> 75%
> 100%
> n
> Barbara mean
> sd
> 0%
> 25%
> 50%
> 75%
> 100%
> n
>
> it is nothing but a numerical summaries across varibales. is it possible.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
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