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