2010/6/5 Jannis <bt_jannis@yahoo.de>

> What exactly do you mean by "variation"? As I understand it, this term is a
> broad term for all kinds of different "spread measures" (like quantile range
> or standard deviation). Do you mean the Coefficient of Variation? If you
> found out how to


Yes, that what I mean. But I looked for ready  function :)


> compute the mean and the std.dev., it is straightforward to calculate
> it.....
>
> Adel ESSAFI schrieb:
>
>> Hi list
>> I am a new user of R. I ask for some "beginner" question
>>
>> I am searching if there is any function that computes the variation of
>> some
>> discrete values of a vector (mean() and sd() exists, but i have not find
>> variation).
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Adel
>>
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