[R] "Explore" SPSS function in R

[William Dunlap]

Can you tell us what "Explore" gives you for the following dataset?

> d<-data.frame(Quant=round(log2(1:24), 2), Categ=LETTERS[rep(1:4,c(8,7,6,3))])
> write.table(d, row.names=FALSE, sep="\t")
"Quant" "Categ"
0       "A"
1       "A"
1.58    "A"
2       "A"
2.32    "A"
2.58    "A"
2.81    "A"
3       "A"
3.17    "B"
3.32    "B"
3.46    "B"
3.58    "B"
3.7     "B"
3.81    "B"
3.91    "B"
4       "C"
4.09    "C"
4.17    "C"
4.25    "C"
4.32    "C"
4.39    "C"
4.46    "D"
4.52    "D"
4.58    "D"

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


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> Subject: [R] "Explore" SPSS function in R
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Does anybody knows if there is an equivalent R function  that gives the same
> outcome as in "Explore" function in SPSS ?
> (Analize->Descriptive Statistics->Explore)
> 
> It does a categorical vs quantitative variables analysis. ( But not linear
> regression)
> 
> I need to compare intragroup (categorical variable with 4 values) means and
> confidence intervals of a quantitative variable.
> Just like "Explore" function does.
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> 
> 
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