http://www.statmethods.net/stats/descriptives.html
the psych package seems to do what you wan
set.seed(235)
mydata <- data.frame(aa = rnorm(20), bb = rnorm(20) , cc = rnorm(20))
library(psych)
describe(mydata)
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
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> Need help!
> I know how to get the mean and kurtosis for a single variable but I am
> reading in an excel file that has several columns representing variables.
> I
> need a way to find descriptive statistics across ALL the variables?
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