Multiple Summary Statistics for Several Variables by Group in R (Example Code)

In this post you’ll learn how to get multiple summary statistics by group in the R programming language.

Creation of Example Data

data(iris)                      # Example data
head(iris)
#   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
# 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
# 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
# 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa

Example: Different Summary Statistics for Multiple Variables Using group_by & summarize_all [dplyr Package]

install.packages("dplyr")       # Install dplyr package
library("dplyr")                # Load dplyr
iris_summary <- iris %>%        # Calculate summary stats using dplyr
  group_by(Species) %>%
  dplyr::summarize_all(list(mn = mean,
                            sm = sum)) %>% 
  as.data.frame()
iris_summary                    # Print summary data
#      Species Sepal.Length_mn Sepal.Width_mn Petal.Length_mn Petal.Width_mn
# 1     setosa           5.006          3.428           1.462          0.246
# 2 versicolor           5.936          2.770           4.260          1.326
# 3  virginica           6.588          2.974           5.552          2.026
#   Sepal.Length_sm Sepal.Width_sm Petal.Length_sm Petal.Width_sm
# 1           250.3          171.4            73.1           12.3
# 2           296.8          138.5           213.0           66.3
# 3           329.4          148.7           277.6          101.3

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