[R] Using Function

[Silvano]

Hi,

I have some simple statistics to calculate for a large 
number of variables.
I created a simple function to apply to variables.
I would like the variable name to be placed automatically.
I tried the following function but is not working.

desc = function(x){
                 media = mean(x, na.rm=T)
                 desvio = sd(x, na.rm=T)
                 cv = desvio/media*100
                 saida = cbind(media, desvio, cv)
                 colnames(saida) = c(NULL, 'Média', 
'Desvio', 'CV')
                 rownames(saida) = c(x)
                 saida
 }

desc(Idade)

         Média  Desvio      CV
Idade 44.04961 16.9388 38.4539

How do you get the variable name is placed as the first 
element?

My objective is get something like:

rbind(
desc(Altura),
desc(Idade),
desc(IMC),
desc(FC),
desc(CIRCABD),
desc(GLICOSE),
desc(UREIA),
desc(CREATINA),
desc(CTOTAL),
desc(CHDL),
desc(CLDL),
desc(CVLDL),
desc(TRIG),
desc(URICO),
desc(SAQRS),
desc(SOKOLOW_LYON),
desc(CORNELL),
desc(QRS_dur),
desc(Interv_QT)
)

Thanks a lot,

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Silvano Cesar da Costa
Departamento de Estatística
Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Fone: 3371-4346