Hi here,

may be you can play with reshape, or may be aggregate and reshape...

good luck

milton

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:17 AM, rajclinasia <raj@clinasia.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Every one,
> I have a dataframe "class" with "name", "sex", "age", "height", "Weight".
> if i caluclate summary statistics with the below code
>
> numSummary(class[,c("Height", "Weight")], groups=class$Name,
> statistics=c("mean", "sd", "quantiles"), quantiles=c(0,
>  .25,.5,.75,1))
>
> iam getting output like this
>
> Variable: Height
>        mean sd   0%  25%  50%  75% 100% n
> Alfred  69.0 NA 69.0 69.0 69.0 69.0 69.0 1
> Alice   56.5 NA 56.5 56.5 56.5 56.5 56.5 1
> Barbara 65.3 NA 65.3 65.3 65.3 65.3 65.3 1
> Carol   62.8 NA 62.8 62.8 62.8 62.8 62.8 1
>
> Variable: Weight
>         mean sd    0%   25%   50%   75%  100% n
> Alfred  112.5 NA 112.5 112.5 112.5 112.5 112.5 1
> Alice    84.0 NA  84.0  84.0  84.0  84.0  84.0 1
> Barbara  98.0 NA  98.0  98.0  98.0  98.0  98.0 1
> Carol   102.5 NA 102.5 102.5 102.5 102.5 102.5 1
>
> now my question is i want output like this
>
>                      height         weight
> Alfred mean
>         sd
>         0%
>         25%
>         50%
>         75%
>         100%
>          n
> Alice mean
>         sd
>         0%
>         25%
>         50%
>         75%
>         100%
>          n
> Barbara mean
>         sd
>         0%
>         25%
>         50%
>         75%
>         100%
>          n
>
>  it is nothing but a numerical summaries across varibales. is it possible.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
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