Re: [R] descriptive statistics qn

2009-10-20 Thread Daniel Malter
Type ?mean ?sd in the R prompt. For your specific goal, type mean(r[1:25]) in the prompt. Proceed analogously for sd Just download one of the very many beginner's manuals or introductory course materials that you get for free on the internet, and get Ricci's R-refcard. Daniel -

Re: [R] descriptive statistics qn

2009-10-20 Thread stephen sefick
foo is the data frame you provided mean(foo[1:25,2]) var(foo[1:25,2]) indexing key: foo[rows,cols] hth Stephen Sefick On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Sibusiso Moyo wrote: > This is day one on R for me, I am trying to figure out how to do simple > computations. For example I have a data set