R help - May 2007 - Looking for a comprehensive descriptive statistics package

Hi all,

I'm looking for a package that will give me comprehensive set of 
descriptive statistics, including skew and kurtosis.  Also, is there a 
similar package that will provide multivariate descriptive statistics as 
well?  Thanks in advance,

David


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Hi,

summary(yourdata) is often a very good starting point for descriptive 
data statistics. Or you can write your own little function which returns 
what you actually like to see (the code below was written very quickly. 
No care is taken for the presence of missing values or anything else).


exampledata <- rnorm(10000)
summary(exampledata)
desc <- function(mydata) {
   require(e1071)
   quantls <- quantile(x=mydata, probs=seq(from=0, to=1, by=0.25))
   themean <- mean(mydata)
   thesd <- sd(mydata)
   kurt <- kurtosis(mydata)
   skew <- skewness(mydata)
   retlist <- list(Quantiles=quantls, Mean=themean, StandDev=thesd,
                   Skewness=skew, Kurtosis=kurt)
   return(retlist)
}

descstats <- desc(exampledata)
descstats



I hope this helps,
Roland


David Kaplan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for a package that will give me comprehensive set of 
> descriptive statistics, including skew and kurtosis.  Also, is there a 
> similar package that will provide multivariate descriptive statistics as 
> well?  Thanks in advance,
> 
> David
> 
>