summary.data.frame
Summary of a Data Frame Object

### Description

Provides the summary messages for a data frame object. If object is a matrix, it will be converted to a data.frame with as.data.frame and passed to the data.frame method.

### Usage

    summary.data.frame(object, maxsum = 7L,
       digits = max(3L, getOption("digits") - 3L), ...)
    summary.matrix(object, ...)

### Arguments

object | an object that inherits from "data.frame" or "matrix".
maxsum | the maximum number of levels of factor columns to be shown in the result. The first maxsum-1 levels are shown and the rest of levels will be combined in one cell named "(Other)". this argument is passed to summary.factor. See summary.factor.
digits | the results for numeric data will be rounded to digit significant digits.
... | additional arguments to pass to or from other methods.

### Details

This is a method for the function summary() for data.frames and matrices: it should not be called directly but via the generic summary function, which will choose the appropriate method. See summary for the general behavior of this function.
Value
a summary object of class "table" that contains components specific to a data frame.
See Also
summary
Examples

    summary(Sdatasets::iris)
    summary(Sdatasets::iris, maxsum = 2, digits = 2)

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