[R] Calculation of Central Moments

[William Revelle]

At 9:09 AM -0500 12/1/09, Jorge Ivan Velez wrote:
>Hi Maithili,
>
>Here is a suugestion:
>
>R> install.packages('fBasics')
>R> require(fBasics)
>R> set.seed(123)
>R> x <- rnorm(100)
>R> basicStats(x)
>
>HTH,
>Jorge
>

or, try the describe function in psych.
However, neither fBasics nor describe will report the mode.






>On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Maithili Shiva <> wrote:
>
>>  Dear R helpers
>>
>>  If for a given data, I need to calculate Mean, Standard Deviation, Mode,
>>  Median, Skewness, Kurtosis, is there any package in R, which will calculate
>>  these moments?
>>
>>  Individually I can calculate these, but if there is any function which will
>>  calculate these at a stretch, please let me know.
>>
>>  Maithili
>>
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