other decriptive stats packages
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:01:07PM -0800, frenchcr wrote:
i just found the following list, i wondered if anybody could add to this as i have to characterize a large data set and am new to R...the list below was so helpful....can you add to this??? Just to forestall confusion amongst those who would like to use one of the functions called "describe"... Hmisc package - describe
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psych package - describe
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prettyR package - describe
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the above are the defaults - the user can specify the name(s) of any function(s) as an argument to the function to customize the display.
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....are there any more packages that help decribe and explore data sets ????
I maintain the package descr, which has the following descriptive functions (in addition to a few others): freq : frequency table crosstab : cross tabulation compmeans : means comparison The three functions accept weights among their arguments.