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

[Petr PIKAL]

Hi

> 
> 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.

And summary has its own data frame method so simply

summary(name.of.your.data.frame)

There is also fivenum function and more elaborated describe in Hmisc I 
believe :-)

Regards
Petr

> 
> 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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