| whatis {no package} | R Documentation |
A tool that formats a data frame in a useful way for basic reality checking.
whatis(x, ...) whatis(x, var.name.truncate = 20)
x |
the data frame to be laundered. |
var.name.truncate |
the number of characters at which to truncate the names of variables so that they all fit on the screen. |
whatis() prints out a line of text for each variable in a data frame giving its storage type (factor, numeric, string, etc.), number of missing values, number of distinct values (helpful, for instance, in identifying variables that are numeric but should be considered as factors), and suspicious values (potential outliers).
John Emerson, Department of Statistics, Yale University.
Walton Green, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
Do we have some nice examples?