Get Summary of Results produced by Functions in R Programming summary() Function (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 23 Jun, 2020

summary() function in R Language is a generic function used to produce result summaries of the results of various model fitting functions.

Syntax: summary(object, maxsum)Parameters: object: R objectmaxsum: integer value which indicates how many levels should be shown for factors

Example 1:

Python3 `

R program to illustrate

summary function

Initializing a character and

integer vector

x <- c("GFG", "gfg", "Geek", "Geeks") y <- c(1, 2, 3, 4)

Calling summary() function

summary(x) summary(y)

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Output:

Length Class Mode 4 character character

Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 1.00 1.75 2.50 2.50 3.25 4.00

Example 2:

Python3 `

R program to illustrate

summary function

Initializing a data set

state.region

Calling summary() function to

get the factor for above data set

Getting all the possible levels

summary(state.region)

Getting maximum 3 levels

summary(state.region, maxsum = 3)

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Output:

[1] South West West South West
[6] West Northeast South South South
[11] West West North Central North Central North Central [16] North Central South South Northeast South
[21] Northeast North Central North Central South North Central [26] West North Central West Northeast Northeast
[31] West Northeast South North Central North Central [36] South West Northeast Northeast South
[41] North Central South South West Northeast
[46] South West South North Central West
Levels: Northeast South North Central West Northeast South North Central West 9 16 12 13 South West (Other) 16 13 21