[R] variation

[John Kane]

?var perhaps

--- On Sat, 6/5/10, Adel ESSAFI <adel.safi at imag.fr> wrote:

> From: Adel ESSAFI <adel.safi at imag.fr>
> Subject: Re: [R] variation
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Saturday, June 5, 2010, 7:57 AM
> 2010/6/5 Jannis <bt_jannis at yahoo.de>
> 
> > What exactly do you mean by "variation"? As I
> understand it, this term is a
> > broad term for all kinds of different "spread
> measures" (like quantile range
> > or standard deviation). Do you mean the Coefficient of
> Variation? If you
> > found out how to
> 
> 
> Yes, that what I mean. But I looked for ready 
> function :)
> 
> 
> > compute the mean and the std.dev., it is
> straightforward to calculate
> > it.....
> >
> > Adel ESSAFI schrieb:
> >
> >> Hi list
> >> I am a new user of R. I ask for some "beginner"
> question
> >>
> >> I am searching if there is any function that
> computes the variation of
> >> some
> >> discrete values of a vector (mean() and sd()
> exists, but i have not find
> >> variation).
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >>
> >> Adel
> >>
> >>
> >> 
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