[R] crosstabling multiple variables at once

[Uwe Ligges]

On 20.05.2010 19:16, Biau David wrote:
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>> I am trying to describe a data.frame by obtaining multiple crosstable summary statistics at once. I have tried table, xtab, crosstable, summaryBy and describe but none of these functions seems to allow muliple conparisons at once.
>>   Here, is what I would like to do:
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>> I have, for instance, age, sex (M and F), grade (1, 2, 3) and site (limb, trunk) and I want the, for instance, following summary statistics:
>> - age (mean, SD) for males and age for females
>> - age for grade 1, grade2, and grade 3
>> - age for site limb, site trunk
>> - sex (count, proportions) for grade 1, grade2, and grade 3
>> - sex (count, proportions) site limb, site trunk (already have sex/age above)
>> - grade (count, proportions) for site limb, site trunk (already have grade/sex and grade/age above)
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>> lso, I want each of these not crossed by any others (mean overall age, numbers of males, etc) which could be seen as each crossed with its own.
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>> I have at least 10 variables, continuous, categorical ordered and non ordered. I don't want any tests.
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>> Any idea?


Since all of the tables you want to get are somehow specific, I'd do it 
step by step.....

Uwe Ligges







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