summary {base}

R Documentation

Object Summaries

Description

summary is a generic function used to produce result summaries of the results of various model fitting functions. The function invokes particular methods which depend on the class of the first argument.

Usage

summary(object, ...)

## Default S3 method:
summary(object, ..., digits = max(3, getOption("digits")-3))
## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
summary(object, maxsum = 7,
       digits = max(3, getOption("digits")-3), ...)

## S3 method for class 'factor'
summary(object, maxsum = 100, ...)

## S3 method for class 'matrix'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object	an object for which a summary is desired.
maxsum	integer, indicating how many levels should be shown for factors.
digits	integer, used for number formatting with signif() (for summary.default) or format() (for summary.data.frame).
...	additional arguments affecting the summary produced.

Details

For factors, the frequency of the first maxsum - 1 most frequent levels is shown, where the less frequent levels are summarized in "(Others)" (resulting in maxsum frequencies).

The functions summary.lm and summary.glm are examples of particular methods which summarize the results produced by lm and glm.

Value

The form of the value returned by summary depends on the class of its argument. See the documentation of the particular methods for details of what is produced by that method.

References

Chambers, J. M. and Hastie, T. J. (1992) Statistical Models in S. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

See Also

anova, summary.glm, summary.lm.

Examples

summary(attenu, digits = 4) #-> summary.data.frame(...), default precision
summary(attenu $ station, maxsum = 20) #-> summary.factor(...)

lst <- unclass(attenu$station) > 20 # logical with NAs
## summary.default() for logicals -- different from *.factor:
summary(lst)
summary(as.factor(lst))

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