describe: Describe atomic vectors or data.frames.

In paulhendricks/describer: Describe Data in R Using Common Descriptive Statistics

Description

describe takes vectors and data.frames and returns a data.frame containing important descriptive statistics.

Usage

describe(.x)

## S3 method for class 'numeric'
describe(.x)

## S3 method for class 'character'
describe(.x)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
describe(.x)

## Default S3 method:
describe(.x)

Arguments

.x	a vector or data.frame to be described.

Value

a data.frame containing important descriptive statistics.

Methods (by class)

• numeric: Method for numeric.

• character: Method for character.

• data.frame: Method for data.frames.

• default: Method for default.

Examples

# Example
describe(mtcars)
describe(iris)
describe(state.name)

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