[R] How to get the descriptive statistic of the whole dataframe?

Daniel Malter daniel at umd.edu
Thu Aug 18 10:07:41 CEST 2011


look into the *apply series of functions. In your case

apply(name.of.your.data.frame,2,min)

or 

apply(name.of.your.data.frame,2,max)

will do. You can also put any summary function to your liking instead of
min/max.

Best,
Daniel


Lao Meng wrote:
> 
> Hi all:
> If I have a dataframe of N columns.If I wanna get the min(or max,or
> mean...etc)of the whole dataframe,how to do it quickly?
> What I can do is only:
> min(data[,1:ncol(data)])
> 
> Any other suggestion?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> best
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