On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:43:38 -0500 Andrew Miles <rstuff.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! Using the plyr package and the approach you outlined seems to > work well for relatively simple functions (like wtd.mean), but so far > I haven't had much success in using it with more complex descriptive > functions like describe {Hmisc}.
'describe' outputs a list, not just a vector. To get the actual values as vectors, you have to extract them, e.g.: describe(x)$counts describe(x)$values -- Karl Ove Hufthammer ______________________________________________ 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.