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info

Provides variables description for dataset

Description

info returns data.frame with variables description and some summary statistics. Resulting data.frame mainly intended to keep in front of eyes in RStudio viewer or to be saved as csv to view in the spreadsheet software as reference about working dataset.

Usage

info(x, stats = TRUE, frequencies = TRUE, max_levels = 10)

Arguments

`x`	vector/factor/list/data.frame.
`stats`	Logical. Should we calculate summary for each variable?
`frequencies`	Logical. Should we calculate frequencies for each variable? This calculation can take significant amount of time for large datasets.
`max_levels`	Numeric. Maximum levels for using in frequency calculations. Levels above this value will convert to 'Other values'.

Value

data.frame with following columns: Name, Class, Length, NotNA, NA, Distincts, Label, ValueLabels, Min., 1st Qu., Median, Mean, 3rd Qu., Max., Frequency.

Examples

data(mtcars)
var_lab(mtcars$am) = "Transmission"
val_lab(mtcars$am) = c("Automatic"=0, "Manual"=1)
info(mtcars, max_levels = 5)

expss

Tables, Labels and Some Useful Functions from Spreadsheets and 'SPSS' Statistics

v0.10.7

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Gregory Demin [aut, cre], Sebastian Jeworutzki [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2671-5253>)

Initial release