statshelpers: Simple stats and tabulation helper functions
In agsemisc: Miscellaneous plotting and utility functions

Description Details Author(s) See Also Examples

a.iqr(x) interquartile range of numeric vector

a.qr(x) ratio of 3rd to 1st quartile of numeric vector

a.proportion.test(x1,x2, y1,y2, totals=FALSE) compares x1/x2 to y1/y2 using fisher.test and prints the result. totals=TRUE means the supplied x2 is in fact (x1+x2); ditto for y2.

a.findcorrelations(df, vars1=names(df), vars2=vars1, min.cor=0.5) computes corrrelation (of values and of ranks) for each pair of variables from (vars1,vars2), sorts them by size and returns the large ones (along with descriptive names) as a vector. Ignores NAs.

a.printextremes(df, vars, largest=5, showalso=NULL given variable names a,b,c from dataframe df, prints the tuples a,b,c with the 5 largest values of a. Ditto for b and for c. largest can be a vector (along vars) and negative values print smallest instead of largest. Factors are moved from vars to showalso.

Type the name of a function to see its source code for details.

Lutz Prechelt prechelt@inf.fu-berlin.de

cor, rank, quantile, summary.

set.seed(17)
base = rnorm(100)
a = floor(base*10)
b = floor(a+runif(100, -10, 11))
c=floor(base)
d=ordered(floor(b/8))  # allows for rank correlation only
df=data.frame(a=a,b=b,c=c,d=d)

a.findcorrelations(df,min.cor=0.85)

a.printextremes(iris, vars=c("Species", "Sepal.Length", "Petal.Width"), 
                largest=c(3, -4, -5), showalso=c("Petal.Length"))