[R] pull stat out of summary

[David L Carlson]

This is your answer:

> str(hold)
Classes 'summaryDefault', 'table'  Named num [1:6] -2.602 0.636 1.514 1.54 2.369 ...
  ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:6] "Min." "1st Qu." "Median" "Mean" ...

hold is a table of named numbers, i.e. a vector with a names attribute. It is not a data.frame so it does not have column names. The error message sort of tells you this when it says hold is an atomic vector (i.e. not a list or a data frame which are built from other objects such as vectors).

David Carlson
Anthropology Department
Texas A&M University
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Subject: [R] pull stat out of summary

Continuing my learning curve after 25_ years with using SAS. Want to
pull the "Mean" forom the summary of something...

test <- rnorm(1000,1.5,1.25)

hold <- summary(test)

names(hold)
[1] "Min."    "1st Qu." "Median"  "Mean"    "3rd Qu." "Max."

OK, so "Mean" is in there.
So, is there a short form answer for why hold$Mean throws an error, and
hold["Mean"} returns the mean (as desired)?

Silly question I know,  but gotta start somewhere...

Thanks...

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