Hi
data frame is list so
mean(unlist(DF)) or sd(unlist(df))
shall do what you want if I understood correctly.
HTH
Petr
On 10 Aug 2006 at 11:10, Patrick Aber wrote:
From: "Patrick Aber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date sent: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:10:35 -0400
Subject: [R] summary statistics on an entire data frame
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering how to compute functions like mean(), sd(), etc. on a
> data frame, but instead of getting a vector with the summary stat
> calculated individually for each column, get one number for the whole
> data set. I have noticed that coercing the frame to a time series
> (ts) gives the desired result for certain functions, but not others.
> mean() gives a single numeric result, but sd() still gives standard
> deviations per column. I have noticed that when my data is coerced to
> a ts, it actually gets the class c("mts", ts") instead of just "ts",
> which may or may not have something to do with the problem.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give!
>
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