On Apr 14, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Tom Mosca <tom at vims.edu> wrote:
Hello,
I?ve tried several times to learn R, but have never gotten past a particular gate. My data are organized by column in Excel, with column headers in the first row. The columns are of unequal lengths. I export them as CSV, then import the CSV file into R. I wish to summarize the data by column. R inserts NA for missing values, then refuses to operate on columns with NA. R is importing my data into a data frame, and I realize that is inappropriate for what I want to do.
How can I import my data so that I can work on columns of unequal length? The first thing I would like to do is generate a table containing mean, median, mode, standard deviation, min, max and count, all per column.