[R] question regarding basic stat question

[Uwe Ligges]

What about using read.table() and applying summary() on the result?

Uwe Ligges


On 22.02.2011 13:20, Daniel Harris wrote:
> Hello
>
> Is it possible to get summary statistics (inc mean, sd etc) from a
> text file that has the following info stored in it?
>
> Height             Frequency
>
> 123                  5
> 124                  8
> 125                  3
> 126                  9
> 127                  7
>
> etc                   etc
>
> Now I know I can convert the file to a single list outside of R using
> python etc and I can convert the file to a single list inside R using
> a series of (what I find) complicated commands.
>
> Is there a simple way of doing summary(Height,Frequency)
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dan
>
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