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IDEMSInternational / R-Instat

A statistics software package powered by R
http://r-instat.org/
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Possibly add additional summaries to one variable summarise (customised) dialogue #7589

Open rdstern opened 2 years ago

rdstern commented 2 years ago

@lilyclements and @Ivanluv I am not sure if we are going over old ground again here? I have been trying this dialogue as I write the help.

The one variable (customised) dialogue seems now to work with (all?) different types of data. But I was hoping for more summaries as follows: a) For date variables it could give summaries, (the ordinary summary command does - min, quartiles, mean, etc, expressed as dates? b) For ordered factors could it give the min and max? That's a luxury, but also a good reason (simpler than explaining contrasts) for why you may want to define a variable as an ordered factor. (You should be able to give medians and percentiles too, but I am not sure that's possible? I wonder if it is, with the fdth package? ) c) We now have skim in the 2/3-variable dialogue. I can't see why I didn't suggest adding it to the one variable as well? That could be a 3rd button at the top. @Ivanluv I assume that's easy to do? If so, then make it the middle button. d) We have the Missing option Customised, but not our rich set of options on Missing - i.e. the Missing button. I assume that's easy to add? If so, then this could be an easy dialogue to explain these options - and they are a good selling point for R-Instat?

lilyclements commented 2 years ago

@rdstern I have now fixed (a) and (b) in #7465, thanks!

I assume (c) and (d) is for @Ivanluv to implement?

Ivanluv commented 2 years ago

We have the Missing option Customised, but not our rich set of options on Missing - i.e. the Missing button. I assume that's easy to add? If so, then this could be an easy dialogue to explain these options - and they are a good selling point for R-Instat?

@rdstern which dialogue has this Missing Button?

rdstern commented 2 years ago

@Ivanluv Prepare > Data Reshape > Column Summaries has the missing options. I hope it will be trivial to add. Omit if not.