Re: [R] other decriptive stats packages

2009-11-23 Thread Matthieu Lesnoff
> > are there any more packages that help decribe and explore data > sets package tdisplay at http://forums.cirad.fr/logiciel-R/viewtopic.php?t=2409 Details: display-packageTool Box for Data Importation and Display import Import Data From External Data Bases

Re: [R] other decriptive stats packages

2009-11-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/21/09, frenchcr wrote: > are there any more packages that help decribe and explore data sets > See numSummary() in Rcmdr. Liviu __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

Re: [R] other decriptive stats packages

2009-11-22 Thread Tal Galili
A few more came to mind: VIM package (for exploring missing data): http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/VIM/index.html http://bm2.genes.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/index.php?scope=name&query=VIM And the basic commands: * edit (for seeing the dataframe as in a spreadsheet) And the commands: * head (and)

Re: [R] other decriptive stats packages

2009-11-22 Thread Tal Galili
Here is one more function for the list: "whatis" from the package: "YaleToolkit" See: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/YaleToolkit/ I also like using: ls() ls.str() And sometimes (for just one variable): stem (which can be viewd as an ascii histogram) Wonderful question and list, I hope

Re: [R] other decriptive stats packages

2009-11-22 Thread Jakson A. Aquino
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:01:07PM -0800, frenchcr wrote: > > i just found the following list, i wondered if anybody could add to this as i > have to characterize a large data set and am new to R...the list below was > so helpfulcan you add to this??? > > Just to forestall confusion amongst t

[R] other decriptive stats packages

2009-11-21 Thread frenchcr
i just found the following list, i wondered if anybody could add to this as i have to characterize a large data set and am new to R...the list below was so helpfulcan you add to this??? Just to forestall confusion amongst those who would like to use one of the functions called "describe"...