[R] Summary Stats (not summary(x))

[William Revelle]

At 11:26 AM -0400 7/9/08, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>There are describe functions in prettyR and Hmisc packages and
>doSummary in doBy.

As well as describe and describe.by  in the psych package.


>
>On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, nmarti <nate318i at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I'm looking for a function that lists a few summary stats for a column (or
>>  row) of data.  I'm aware of summary(x), but that does not give me what I'm
>>  looking for.
>>  I'm actually looking for something that is very similar to the descriptive
>>  statistics tool in excel; i.e. Mean, Std. Error, Std. Deviation, Kurtosis.
>>  I'm positive that I came across a function that did this (possibly in
>>  Rmetrics), but now I can't find it.  I lost it in the endless mass of R
>>  functions.
>>
>>  Any help would be appreciated.
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