Hi, It is better to ?dput() the dummy dataset. I made up some data for female==0 dat1<- read.table(text=" pbnr dat dep dys sop ago mis age female messpunkt2 messpunkt1 tage eintrittsjahr 1 10023 1994-02-21 0.75 1.00 0.50 0.50 0.75 35 1 8817 8817 0 1994 2 10023 1994-05-25 0.75 1.00 0.50 0.50 0.75 35 1 8910 8817 93 1994 3 10028 1994-02-01 2.00 1.75 3.00 0.50 1.50 42 1 8797 8797 0 1994 4 10028 1999-01-15 1.25 0.75 2.25 0.50 0.25 42 1 10606 8797 1809 1999 5 10053 1994-03-16 2.50 0.75 1.25 0.50 1.25 22 1 8840 8840 0 1994 6 10053 1994-09-23 3.25 1.25 1.25 0.75 2.25 22 1 9031 8840 191 1994 7 10043 1994-02-21 0.85 1.20 0.51 0.55 0.95 45 0 8917 8817 0 1994 8 10043 1994-05-25 0.95 1.10 0.55 0.55 0.85 35 0 8950 8717 93 1994 9 10038 1994-02-01 2.50 1.85 3.20 0.70 1.70 45 0 9797 8897 0 1994 10 10038 1999-01-15 1.55 0.85 2.35 0.70 0.55 47 0 11606 9797 1809 1999 11 10063 1994-03-16 2.20 0.65 1.55 0.85 1.25 28 0 8940 8850 0 1994 12 10063 1994-09-23 3.55 1.35 1.55 0.95 2.35 32 0 9531 8340 191 1994 ",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
by(dat1[, c(3:8)], dat1[,"female"], summary) #or library(psych) describeBy(dat1[,3:8],dat1$female) #or describeBy(dat1[,3:8],dat1$female,mat=TRUE) A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sophie Homeyer <sophie.home...@googlemail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 4:58 PM Subject: [R] quick Help needed Hi, i am new to this forum and not sure how it works, I am trying to do deskriptive descripe my data in terms of gender: head(scltotal) pbnr dat dep dys sop ago mis age female messpunkt2 messpunkt1 tage eintrittsjahr 1 10023 1994-02-21 0.75 1.00 0.50 0.50 0.75 35 1 8817 8817 0 1994 2 10023 1994-05-25 0.75 1.00 0.50 0.50 0.75 35 1 8910 8817 93 1994 3 10028 1994-02-01 2.00 1.75 3.00 0.50 1.50 42 1 8797 8797 0 1994 4 10028 1999-01-15 1.25 0.75 2.25 0.50 0.25 42 1 10606 8797 1809 1999 5 10053 1994-03-16 2.50 0.75 1.25 0.50 1.25 22 1 8840 8840 0 1994 6 10053 1994-09-23 3.25 1.25 1.25 0.75 2.25 22 1 9031 8840 191 1994 so female is either 0 or 1 I assume 0 is male and 1 is female. And I want to look at dep, dys, sop, ago and mis how they are in terms of gender (female or male) I have no clue what to do :-( thanks for your help sophie [[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.