describe: Descriptive statistics
In luca-scr/smef: Statistical Methods for Economy and Finance

Descriptive statistics for a matrix or data frame.

describe(data, by, detailed = FALSE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'describe'
print(x, digits = getOption("digits"), ...)

`data`	a matrix or a data.frame.
`by`	the name of a variable to condition on,
`detailed`	logical, if TRUE a detailed summary is returned.
`...`	additional arguments to be passed to the low level functions.
`x`	an object of class 'describe'.
`digits`	significant digits.