Full_Name: ivo welch Version: 1.8.1 OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (130.132.33.212) summary() should take keywords for the statistics desired. summary(dataset, method="mean,median"); or something like it. I would also add an option to have column related outputs, var n NA mean sdv min q1 med q3 max x1 ... x2 ... x3 ... I know one can write this, but it would be nice to have this standard. summary is such a basic function that it should be all set in every version of R. regards, /ivo