How to get the descriptive statistic of the whole dataframe?
look into the *apply series of functions. In your case apply(name.of.your.data.frame,2,min) or apply(name.of.your.data.frame,2,max) will do. You can also put any summary function to your liking instead of min/max. Best, Daniel
Lao Meng wrote:
Hi all: If I have a dataframe of N columns.If I wanna get the min(or max,or mean...etc)of the whole dataframe,how to do it quickly? What I can do is only: min(data[,1:ncol(data)]) Any other suggestion? Thanks! best [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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