[R] question regarding basic stat question

2011-02-22 Thread Daniel Harris
Hello Is it possible to get summary statistics (inc mean, sd etc) from a text file that has the following info stored in it? Height Frequency 123 5 124 8 125 3 126 9 127 7 etc etc

Re: [R] question regarding basic stat question

2011-02-22 Thread Daniel Harris
on reading various file formats. HTH, Bryan Prof. Bryan Hanson Dept of Chemistry Biochemistry DePauw University 602 S. College Ave Greencastle IN 46135 USA On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:20 AM, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello Is it possible to get summary statistics (inc mean, sd etc

Re: [R] question regarding basic stat question

2011-02-22 Thread Daniel Harris
The first column gives the answer that I am looking for but I just thought their maybe a better way without using the long variable Sounds like you want the frequency-weighted summary statistics. For the mean, look at ?weighted.mean. For more comprehensive stats, check ?wtd.mean in the Hmisc