[R] summary statistics

[David Winsemius]

describe() in Hmisc provides much of the rest of what you asked for:

 > describe(pref900$TCHDL)
pref900$TCHDL
       n missing  unique    Mean     .05     .10     .25     .50     . 
75     .90     .95
  906190    4469   16051   4.123   2.320   2.557   3.061   3.841    
4.886   6.054   6.867

lowest :  0.9342  1.0200  1.0522  1.1008  1.1061, highest: 19.8696  
20.1667 20.7619 21.6364 21.7200


On Feb 9, 2009, at 6:04 PM, phoebe kong wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if there is a function that can return summary  
> statistics:
> N=total number of observation, # missing, mean, median, range,  
> standard
> deviation.
>
> As I know, summary() returns some of info I've mentioned above.
>
> Thanks,
> SY
>
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