See the describe functions in these packages: Hmisc pysch prettyR
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:12 AM, adrien Penac <farfel...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > Thank a lot for these answers. > > Some of you wondered why I needed > to do that! > > In fact, I have not so big data.frame whith many > columns (98) and many of them are similar (many binary answers, some > factor data and a few quantitative datas). > > As I am a lazy guy, I > wanted to do a sort of function that would apply some descriptive > statistics (and maybe some graphics) to each on them regarding to its > class. > And I wanted the results to be outputed as : > "Descriptive > statistics for : Bar" > results.... > > then, this would allow me to do a : > > For (i in names(mydata)) desc(mydata[[i]]) > > In > fact, I was testing this function with a : desc(mydata$Bar) > where > desc was my lazy guy function defined as: > desc <- function(x) { > print(paste("descriptive > statistics for ",x)) > if (is.factor(x)) { > print("Raw count:") > print(freq(x, total=T)) > print("Net counts:") > > print(freq(x, total=T, exclude=NA)) > } > else print(summary(x)) > } > > PS: freq is another function defined above > > Regards > > > > ________________________________ > De : Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> > > Cc : R-help@r-project.org > Envoyé le : Lun 3 mai 2010, 13 h 40 min 15 s > Objet : Re: [R] Extract a 'data.frame$column' column name > >> as.character(quote(foo$Bar)[[3]]) > [1] "Bar" > > Hint: this is nothing to do with data frames ($ applies to lists). $ is an > operator, so foo$Bar is a call. quote() stops it being evaluated, [[3]] > selects the third of the elements (which are $, foo, Bar) and as.character > turns the name into a character string. > > > On Mon, 3 May 2010, adrien Penac wrote: > >> Hello, >> I can't find how to get de column name from a data.frame dollar reference. >> >> To make it simple, I'd like to obtain "Bar" from a "foo$Bar" notation. >> I've tried col.names(foo$Bar), names(foo$Bar) and so on without sucess. >> >> Regards >> >> Blaise > > > -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.