[R] something missing in summary()

[Jim Lemon]

Gerard Smits wrote:
 >
 > just noticed that two key pieces of information are not given by
 > the summary() command:  N and SD.  we are given the N missing, but
 > not the converse.  I know these summary value can be obtained easy,
 > but can't understand why these two pieces of information are not
 > provided with the other info.
 >
This was one reason that I wrote the describe function in the prettyR 
package. You can roll your own summary, and describe makes a reasonable 
attempt to sort out the common data types.

Jim