summary.default
Default Summary Method

Description

Prepares a summary for data without a class (or for classes of data with no special summary method).

Usage

summary.default(object, ..., digits = max(3L, getOption("digits") - 3L))

Arguments

object an object without a class.
... arguments other than object and digits are ignored.
digits the results for numeric data are rounded to digit significant digits.

Details

The returned value is useful only for printing. Use functions like quantile or mean to get numerical summaries of data for use in other functions.
Value
In any case, the returned value has class attribute c("summaryDefault", "table").
See Also
mean, quantile, summary, summary.matrix.
Examples
summary(Sdatasets::state.x77[,"Illiteracy"])
# Produces the following:
#  Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
#   0.5   0.625   0.95 1.17   1.575  2.8
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