[R] Summary to data frame in R!!

[peter dalgaard]

On 07 May 2014, at 17:55 , Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:

>> as.data.frame(sapply(mtcars[, c("mpg", "disp")], summary))

I'd use lapply() rather than sapply() here. That goes directly from a list to a data frame, avoiding the detour via a matrix. 

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