Thanks Uwe,
Can't seem to get your formula to work...
I should have made this clearer. I am after a listing of the number of NAs
and Valid Ns (or total N)for export to csv,eg:
Variable, mean, Missing Values, Valid N
test, 6.00000,2,18
bummer,5.44444,1,19
from:
x<-c(1,4,2,6,8,3,5,6,7,8,7,2,4,7,5,1,8,9,8,9)
labl<-gl(2,2,length=20,labels=c("test","bummer"))
x[3]<-NA
x[5]<-NA
x[6]<-NA
aggregate(x,by=list(labl),mean, sum(is.na(x)))
# Group.1 x
#1 test NA
#2 bummer NA
aggregate(x,by=list(labl),mean, na.rm=T)
# Group.1 x
#1 test 6.000000
#2 bummer 5.444444
aggregate(x,by=list(labl),sum(is.na(x)))
# Error in FUN(X[[1]], ...) : Argument "INDEX" is missing, with no default
Cheers Herry
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From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 December 2002 5:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [R] summary stats including NA's into new dataframe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> List,
>
> I am trying to extract summary statistics from a data frame with several
> variables (and NAs) into a dataframe with the columns: Variablename (ie
the
> colnames of original data), mean, stdev, max, min, Valid N, Missing
Values.
>
> Extracting the statistics is straightforward using stack and aggregate.
> However, I haven't succeeded in obtaining the number of Missing Values. I
> can extract these from describe (Hmisc library), but surely there is a
> simpler way similar to obtaining the mean using aggregate?
The similar way is:
aggregate(......., function(x) sum(is.na(x)))
Uwe Ligges
> Suggestions are much appreciated
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