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

[nmarti]

Thanks Gabor.
I was able to create a function that works really well.  One more quick
question if you don't mind.
I want to report the number of observations also (i.e. n = 5420).  What
function would do this?  I really can't find anything that would just simply
count the number of x's.
Thanks again.


Gabor Csardi wrote:
> 
> Why don't you write it for yourself, it takes less time than writing 
> an email:
> 
> mysummary <- function(x) { 
>  require(plotrix)
>  require(e1071)
>  c(Mean=mean(x), Std.Error=std.error(x), Std.Deviation=sd(x), 
>    Kurtosis=kurtosis(x))
> }
> 
> Gabor
> 
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:15:00AM -0700, nmarti 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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