[R] Descriptive statistics table

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Mihai Nica wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> I would like to make a table with descriptive statistics for a data.frame. I guess the question is how can I put together, in a table, the results from, say:
> 
> apply(df, 2, mean, na.rm =T)
> apply(df, 2, median, na.rm =T)
> .......

Please check ?apply: it applies to matrices, not data frames.

Try sapply(mydf, summary) and extract the info you want, or write your own 
summary function such as

sapply(mydf, function(x) c(mean=mean(x), median=median(x)))

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