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gsummary: Summarize by Groups

Description

Provide a summary of the variables in a data frame by groups of rows. This is most useful with a groupedData object to examine the variables by group.

Usage

gsummary(object, FUN, omitGroupingFactor, form, level,
   groups, invariantsOnly, ...)

Value

A data.frame with one row for each level of the grouping factor. The number of columns is at most the number of columns in object.

References

Pinheiro, J.C., and Bates, D.M. (2000) "Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS", Springer.

See Also

summary, groupedData, getGroups

Examples

gsummary(Orthodont)  # default summary by Subject
## gsummary with invariantsOnly = TRUE and omitGroupingFactor = TRUE
## determines whether there are covariates like Sex that are invariant
## within the repeated observations on the same Subject.
gsummary(Orthodont, inv = TRUE, omit = TRUE)