summarytools (version 0.3)

descr: Descriptive Univariate Statistics for Numerical Data

Description

Calculates mean, standard deviation, min, max, median, MAD, IQR, CV, skewness, SE.skewness, and kurtosis.

Usage

descr(x, na.rm=TRUE, style="simple", round.digits=2,
     justify="right", plain.ascii=TRUE, file=NA,
     append=FALSE, transpose=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

Numerical vector.

na.rm

argument to be passed to statistical functions. Defaults to TRUE.

style

Style of pander tables. Defaults to dQuote{grid}.

round.digits

Number of sig. digits to keep. Defaults to 2.

justify

pander argument. Defaults to right.

plain.ascii

pander argument; when results are displayed in console, this avoids having markdown markup characters int the tables. Defaults to TRUE.

file

File name to write output to. Defaults to NA. To append output to an existing text file, use append=TRUE.

append

When file argument is supplied, this indicates whether to append output to existing file (TRUE) or to overwrite any existing file (FALSE, default). If TRUE and no file exists, a new file will be crea

transpose

Makes variables appears as columns, and stats as rows. Defaults to FALSE.

...

Additional arguments passed to pander.

Value

• A list with 2 elements; first one in a matrix (table) containing all the stats. Second, a table of statistics and table of counts (valid vs observations).

References

https://github.com/dcomtois/summarytools

Examples

data(iris)
descr(iris)
descr(iris, transpose=TRUE)