[R] Coefficient of skewness

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It exists in many packages: e1071 was one of the earliest.

Other packages include

GLDEX, HyperbolicDist, QuantPsyc, TSA, agricolae, fUtilities, modeest, 
moments, npde, s20x

It is also a common exercise in basic R programming courses.

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Williams, Robin wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there a function in R to calculate the coefficient of skewness of
> some data? I had expected there to be one, but can find no information
> about it.
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
>
> Robin Williams
> Met Office summer intern - Health Forecasting
> robin.williams at metoffice.gov.uk
>
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