On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:01:07PM -0800, frenchcr wrote: > > i just found the following list, i wondered if anybody could add to this as i > have to characterize a large data set and am new to R...the list below was > so helpful....can you add to this??? > > Just to forestall confusion amongst those who would like to use one of > the functions called "describe"... > > Hmisc package - describe [...] > psych package - describe [...] > prettyR package - describe [...] > the above are the defaults - the user can specify the name(s) of any > function(s) as an argument to the function to customize the display. [...] > ....are there any more packages that help decribe and explore data sets ????
I maintain the package descr, which has the following descriptive functions (in addition to a few others): freq : frequency table crosstab : cross tabulation compmeans : means comparison The three functions accept weights among their arguments. ______________________________________________ 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.