[R] Summary Stats (not summary(x))

[Gabor Grothendieck]

There are describe functions in prettyR and Hmisc packages and
doSummary in doBy.

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, nmarti <nate318i at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a function that lists a few summary stats for a column (or
> row) of data.  I'm aware of summary(x), but that does not give me what I'm
> looking for.
> I'm actually looking for something that is very similar to the descriptive
> statistics tool in excel; i.e. Mean, Std. Error, Std. Deviation, Kurtosis.
> I'm positive that I came across a function that did this (possibly in
> Rmetrics), but now I can't find it.  I lost it in the endless mass of R
> functions.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
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