[R] Table of basic descriptive statistics like SPSS

[John Kane]

#How Can I create a text file with the output of
"describe"?

?sink
?write.table
?write.csv

#delete some variables. 

?Extract
df[,-(10:12)]
df[, 1:9]


--- ukoenig at med.uni-marburg.de wrote:

> Dear list readers,
> I want to:
> 
> 1. Get a table of basic descriptive statistics for
> my variables
> with the variable names one below the other
> like SPSS descriptive statistics:
> 
> Varname N Min Max Mean SD
> xxxx    x  x  x    x   x
> xxx     x  x  x    x   x
> ....
> 
> 2. Delete some variables from a data frame or
> exclude variables
> from beeing analyzed.
> 
> 3. Create a text file / redirect the terminal output
> to a
> file (it is supposed to be easy, but I could not
> find a solution)?
> 
> 4. Create a latex/dvi file
> 
> 5. Create a PDF file (can that be done within R?)
> 
> This code took me some ours (I am new to R). What do
> you think about
> my solution? Are there easier ones? Comments
> welcome! Sorry if
> my questions look very basic and I hope they are
> understandable.
> 
> 
> #here is my code
> setwd("c:\\temp") #set working directory
> 
> library(psych)
> library(xtable)
> library(tools)
> 
> #Create example data frame with many variables
> df <- as.data.frame(matrix( rnorm(1000), ncol=100))
> 
> df <- describe(df) #describe from lib psych
> 
> #How Can I create a text file with the output of
> "describe"?
> #The "save as" function from the GUI saves
> #only last part of the output to a text file (the
> first part is cut)
> 
> 
> #delete some variables. Or can I exclude variables
> from
> #beeing analyzed by "describe" to reduce the numer
> of cols?
> df$kurtosis <- df$skew <- df$se <- NULL
> 
> x.df <- xtable(df) #Create an xtable object
> print(x.df, tabular.environment = "longtable", ,
> floating = FALSE,
>       file="c:\\temp\\descript.tex") #create latex
> file
> 
> # produce dvi file in working directory (from tools)
> texi2dvi("c:\\temp\\descript.tex")  #the lines below
> have to be added
> 
> #Problem: these lines have to be added "manually" to
> the latex
> #before calling "texi2dvi":
> 
> #\documentclass{article}
> #\usepackage{longtable}
> # Latex code
> #\end{document
> 
> 
> #Can I prodcuce a PDF file within R?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Udo
> 
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