Table of basic descriptive statistics like SPSS

ukoenig at med.uni-marburg.de wrote:
Dear list readers,
I want to:

1. Get a table of basic descriptive statistics for my variables
with the variable names one below the other
like SPSS descriptive statistics:

Varname N Min Max Mean SD
xxxx    x  x  x    x   x
xxx     x  x  x    x   x
....

This looks very much like the output of the "describe" function in the 
prettyR package. You can specify which summary stats you want (even roll 
your own).
And if that's not enough:

library(pastecs)
data(trees)
t(stat.desc(trees))
?stat.desc
2. Delete some variables from a data frame or exclude variables
from beeing analyzed.
df2 <- df[ , -c(1, 3), drop = FALSE]

for instance to eliminate variables in columns 1 and 3, but there are 
many other ways to select variables to use in an analysis, beginning 
with the formula interface, see,  e.g., ?lm.
3. Create a text file / redirect the terminal output to a
file (it is supposed to be easy, but I could not find a solution)?

sink("myoutputfile.txt")
do.your.stuff(...)
sink()
OR
maybe you would enjoy "htmlize" or "R2html" in the prettyR package.
... or the R2html package!
4. Create a latex/dvi file

You do this with Sweave, I think.
See also functions in the Hmisc package.
5. Create a PDF file (can that be done within R?)

For plots, the pdf device.
See ?pdf

Please, note first search commands:

apropos("pdf")
RSiteSearch("latex")

Using these, you would have found by yourself the various corresponding 
functions.

Philippe
Jim

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Table of basic descriptive statistics like SPSS

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