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mercergeoinfo
mercergeoinfo

Reputation: 409

Hmisc::describe not working with dataframe

I need a "describe" function that reports values with more than two decimal places and so I thought I would use the Hmisc describe function but even when using the sample code from http://www.inside-r.org/packages/cran/Hmisc/docs/describe I get an error:

> dfr <- data.frame(x=rnorm(400),y=sample(c('male','female'),400,TRUE))
> Hmisc::describe(dfr)
Error in UseMethod("describe") : 
  no applicable method for 'describe' applied to an object of class "data.frame"
> psych::describe(dfr)
   vars   n mean   sd median trimmed  mad   min  max range  skew kurtosis   se
x     1 400 0.07 0.96   0.07    0.07 0.94 -2.41 2.76  5.17  0.02     -0.3 0.05
y*    2 400 1.50 0.50   2.00    1.50 0.00  1.00 2.00  1.00 -0.01     -2.0 0.03

Any suggestions as to why it should be doing this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2547

Answers (1)

Frank Harrell
Frank Harrell

Reputation: 2230

You are trying to use describe in a way that is not supported. Just use:

require(Hmisc)   # or library(Hmisc)
describe(mydataframe)

To get even better output install LaTeX and run 

latex(describe(mydataframe), file='')
# file='' to put LaTeX code inline as for knitr

Upvotes: 3

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