summarise.data.frame: Summary Dataframe

In ivanliu1989/RQuant: A collection of generic functions

Description

This function takes a data frame as an input, and provides a quick summary of the contents of the data frame. It provides table-level (size and last date updated) and column-level (e.g. minimum, maximum, missing values) information For character fields or factors, it provides the number of distinct values. For continuous values, it shows the minimum and maximum. In addition it returns an example value, the number of missing values, the technical and statitical data type

Usage

summarise.data.frame(df)

Arguments

df	The data frame to be summarised

Value

The function returns a list. The list entries contain tabel-level and column-level results

See Also

str, head summary.data.frame

Examples

res <- summarise.data.frame(mtcars)
res$table_level
res$column_level
print(res)

ivanliu1989/RQuant documentation built on Sept. 13, 2019, 11:53 a.m.