[R] variable driven summary of one column

2009-06-25 Thread Anne Skoeries
Hello, how can I get a variable driven summary of one column of my data.frame? Usually I would do summary(data$columnname) to get a summary of column named columnname of my data.frame named data. In my case the columnname is not static but can be set dynamically. So I save the chosen

Re: [R] variable driven summary of one column

2009-06-25 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try: data[,variable] On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Anne Skoeries h...@anne-skoeries.dewrote: Hello, how can I get a variable driven summary of one column of my data.frame? Usually I would do summary(data$columnname) to get a summary of column named columnname of my data.frame named

Re: [R] variable driven summary of one column

2009-06-25 Thread Chuck Cleland
On 6/25/2009 5:44 AM, Anne Skoeries wrote: Hello, how can I get a variable driven summary of one column of my data.frame? Usually I would do summary(data$columnname) to get a summary of column named columnname of my data.frame named data. In my case the columnname is not static but can