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

- if object is numeric, returns the quartiles and mean of the data and the number of missing values, if there are any.
- If object is a list, returns the name, length, class, and mode of each component.
- Otherwise, returns the length, class and mode.

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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