Dear Boris, This bug is traceable to a change in the mean() function in R and is fixed in the current version (1.7-3) of the Rcmdr package on CRAN.
Best, John ------------------------------------------------ John Fox Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:26:41 +0100 "Boris Mayer" <bocab...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello there, > > > > when using the function numSummary in Rcmdr and selecting more than one > variable (without grouping), the grand mean across all variables is returned > for each variable instead of the mean of each single variable. However, this > happens only for the mean, and not for sd, quantiles and na. > > > > This is the output: > > > > > numSummary(dataset1 [,c("var1", "var2")], > > + statistics=c("mean", "sd", "quantiles"), quantiles=c(0,.25,.5,.75,1)) > > mean sd 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% n NA > > var1 15.58491 4.154637 10 14 15 19.5 28 54 0 > > var2 15.58491 5.904053 5 10 15 18.5 30 52 2 > > > > > > When using a grouping variable, everything is fine: > > > > > > > numSummary(dataset1 [,c("var1", "var2")], > > + groups= dataset1$gender, statistics=c("mean", "sd", "quantiles"), > > + quantiles=c(0,.25,.5,.75,1)) > > > > Variable: var1 > > mean sd 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% n NA > > male 16.57895 4.634602 10 14 16 20 28 19 0 > > female 16.28571 3.937538 10 14 15 18 28 35 0 > > > > Variable: var2 > > mean sd 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% n NA > > male 14.72222 5.442810 8 10 14 15.0 28 18 1 > > female 14.76471 6.213664 5 10 15 19.5 30 34 1 > > > > > > > > Any ideas how to get separate means for multiple variables in numSummary > without grouping? > > > > I am using R 2.14.0 and Rcmdr 1.7.2 on Windows 7 Professional. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Boris > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.