[R] other decriptive stats packages

[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 helpful....can you add to this???
> 
> Just to forestall confusion amongst those who would like to use one of 
> the functions called "describe"... 
> 
> Hmisc package - describe 
[...]
> psych package - describe 
[...]
> prettyR package - describe 
[...]
> the above are the defaults - the user can specify the name(s) of any 
> function(s) as an argument to the function to customize the display. 
[...]
> ....are there any more packages that help decribe and explore data sets ????

I maintain the package descr, which has the following descriptive
functions (in addition to a few others):

freq      : frequency table
crosstab  : cross tabulation
compmeans : means comparison

The three functions accept weights among their arguments.