"Simple way to get Descriptive statistic for all data points in R"?
"Simple way to get Descriptive statistic for all data points in R"

"Simple way to get Descriptive statistic for all data points in R"

In Data analysis, descriptive statistics plays a very important role to summarize large amounts of data, so it is easy to interpret them. Descriptive statistics does not aim to reach any conclusion or prove a hypothesis. Its aim is to present a condensed form of data.

There is a package in R called "‘pastecs", which gives a descriptive statistics if a data set using simple command.

Lets looks, what data looks like for class A and class B

## Code to impor CSV File in R, and view it.
## replace the path of file and file name as per your requirement
Student_Data <- read.csv(file="C:\\Users\\swana\\Desktop\\R Code\\students.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",")

View (Student_Data)


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To obtain descriptive statistics for all observations, just us, the following code.

## digits = 2 will round off the output data to 2 decimals
## actual data resides in column 2 and 3, hence [2:3]

options(digits=2)
Des_Sta <- stat.desc(Student_Data[2:3])
View(Des_Sta)
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Hope you find this article useful, do let me know your thoughts on the same.


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