How create any metric descriptive statistics by group for all variables in R [duplicate]

Solution 1:

1. tapply

I'll put in my two cents for tapply().

tapply(df$dt, df$group, summary)

You could write a custom function with the specific statistics you want or format the results:

tapply(df$dt, df$group,
  function(x) format(summary(x), scientific = TRUE))
$A
       Min.     1st Qu.      Median        Mean     3rd Qu.        Max. 
"5.900e+01" "5.975e+01" "6.100e+01" "6.100e+01" "6.225e+01" "6.300e+01" 

$B
       Min.     1st Qu.      Median        Mean     3rd Qu.        Max. 
"6.300e+01" "6.425e+01" "6.550e+01" "6.600e+01" "6.675e+01" "7.100e+01" 

$C
       Min.     1st Qu.      Median        Mean     3rd Qu.        Max. 
"6.600e+01" "6.725e+01" "6.800e+01" "6.800e+01" "6.800e+01" "7.100e+01" 

$D
       Min.     1st Qu.      Median        Mean     3rd Qu.        Max. 
"5.600e+01" "5.975e+01" "6.150e+01" "6.100e+01" "6.300e+01" "6.400e+01"

2. data.table

The data.table package offers a lot of helpful and fast tools for these types of operation:

library(data.table)
setDT(df)
> df[, as.list(summary(dt)), by = group]
   group Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
1:     A   59   59.75   61.0   61   62.25   63
2:     B   63   64.25   65.5   66   66.75   71
3:     C   66   67.25   68.0   68   68.00   71
4:     D   56   59.75   61.5   61   63.00   64

Solution 2:

dplyr package could be nice alternative to this problem:

library(dplyr)

df %>% 
  group_by(group) %>% 
  summarize(mean = mean(dt),
            sum = sum(dt))

To get 1st quadrant and 3rd quadrant

df %>% 
  group_by(group) %>% 
  summarize(q1 = quantile(dt, 0.25),
            q3 = quantile(dt, 0.75))