[R] Table of basic descriptive statistics like SPSS

[Jim Lemon]

Just to forestall confusion amongst those who would like to use one of 
the functions called "describe"...

Hmisc package - describe
numeric
  name
  count of observations
  count of missing values
  count of unique values
  mean
  seven quantiles
  five lowest and highest values
discrete (factor or numeric with <= 10 unique values) -
  as for numeric, but
  no mean, quantiles or low/high values and
  including a frequency/percent display for each value.

psych package - describe
  item name
  item number
  number of valid cases
  mean
  standard deviation
  median
  mad: median absolute deviation (from the median)
  minimum
  maximum
  skew	(optional)
  kurtosis	(optional)
  standard error

prettyR package - describe
numeric
  name
  mean
  median
  var
  sd
  valid.n
the above are the defaults - the user can specify the name(s) of any 
function(s) as an argument to the function to customize the display.
factor
  name
  count for each value
  percent for each value
  modal value
  count of missing values
logical
  name
  count of FALSE
  count of TRUE
  percent of TRUE
  count of missing values

Have fun

Jim