R help - Apr 2016 - Descriptive Statistics of time series data

Hi

I have four variables and the time series data for each variable consists of
values for past 10 years on monthly basis. I want to get descriptive stats for
these four variables separately (mean, median, sd, min, max).

The data I import to R consists of different columns, where each column gives
values for one month of a particular year (e.g. March 31st, 2010). Right now R
gives descriptive results for each column, whereas I need it collectively for
all the years ( one mean, one sd, one min, one max and one median) for each
variable.

Kindly guide me in this regard.

Thanks.
Saba

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Use the r function scan() to read the entire file into a vector and then
extract the observations for each series (possible using loops?)

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On 6 April 2016 at 12:50, Saba Sehrish via R-help <r-help at
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wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have four variables and the time series data for each variable consists
> of values for past 10 years on monthly basis. I want to get descriptive
> stats for these four variables separately (mean, median, sd, min, max).
>
> The data I import to R consists of different columns, where each column
> gives values for one month of a particular year (e.g. March 31st, 2010).
> Right now R gives descriptive results for each column, whereas I need it
> collectively for all the years ( one mean, one sd, one min, one max and one
> median) for each variable.
>
> Kindly guide me in this regard.
>
> Thanks.
> Saba
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
>
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