[R] Descriptive statistics table

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

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)
> .......
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mihai Nica
> Jackson State University
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Besides a standard summary( ), one of many ways is to use the Hmisc 
package.  See 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/s/Hmisc/html/summary.formula.html
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/StatReport/summary.pdf 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/SdataManip

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                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University