[R] summary statistics for grouped data

[Greg Snow]

There are several depending on what specifically you want to do.  Some of the things to look at include: tapply, aggregate, the plyr package.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> project.org] On Behalf Of jose romero
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:24 AM
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> Subject: [R] summary statistics for grouped data
> 
> Hello list:
> 
> Is there an easy way (preferably through one of the standard R
> packages) of obtaining summary statistics for grouped data? I could
> split the data into classes by hist, and then progressively calculate
> all the "columns" i need to obtain the mean and standard deviation, but
> i was looking for a single function that could do that with a data
> vector.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> jose romero
> 
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