I am using R in my intro stat course, and, I myself is a R novice.

We use "Intro to the practice of statistics" by Moore, McCabe, Craig as 
textbook. Is there an option for the command "t.test" so that it can perform 
t-test from the summary of sample data (that is, sample mean, sample sd, and 
sample size), instead of the (raw) sample data? I've been looking to find a way 
to do so, but, I couldn't. 

I believe it is possible to write codes to do this for my own use, but, I am 
just curious. Is there a pedagogical reason not to do so? This is a bit 
annoying when all the exercises problems in the book needs such a 
functionality, and I can't figure out how to do it in R, especially when many 
other major stat packages (including TI calculators) have that capability. What 
am I missing here?

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Byungchul Cha
Muhlenberg College

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