[R] Table of basic descriptive statistics like SPSS

[Jim Lemon]

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
> ....
> 
This looks very much like the output of the "describe" function in the 
prettyR package. You can specify which summary stats you want (even roll 
your own).

> 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)?
>
sink("myoutputfile.txt")
do.your.stuff(...)
sink()
OR
maybe you would enjoy "htmlize" or "R2html" in the prettyR package.

> 4. Create a latex/dvi file
> 
You do this with Sweave, I think.
> 5. Create a PDF file (can that be done within R?)
> 
For plots, the pdf device.
Jim