[R] sequence of commands in R

[Paul Hiemstra]

Manuel Jesús López Rodríguez wrote:
> Dear all,
> I would like to know how could I execute a sequence or orders with just a function, i.e, that just typing the function name, R gives me all the parameters I want (for instance, if I want to see the summary, the standard deviation, the number of valid cases, etc of a dataframe just with one function). I have tried with the following, but just compute the second argument of the body, i.e., the summary:
>
> resumen<-function(x) {
> 	apply(x,2,sd,na.rm=TRUE)
> 	summary(x)
> 	}
>
> Thank you very much for your help!!
>
> Manuel
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Hi Manuel,

In addition to my fellow R-helpers:

R does not save the result of the apply function on x. Now you calculate 
it and it is discarded. To save it, try something like:

resumen<-function(x) {
	y = apply(x,2,sd,na.rm=TRUE)
	summary(y)
	}

Or print statements on both lines, as the others suggested.

cheers,
Paul

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