| PackageDescription | DescTools contains a bunch of basic statistic functions and convenience
wrappers for efficiently describing data, creating specific plots, doing
reports using MS Word, Excel or PowerPoint. The package's intention is to
offer a toolbox, which facilitates the (notoriously time consuming) first
descriptive tasks in data analysis, consisting of calculating descriptive
statistics, drawing graphical summaries and reporting the results. Many of
the included functions can be found scattered in other packages and other
sources written partly by Titans of R. The reason for collecting them
here, was primarily to have them consolidated in ONE instead of dozens of
packages (which themselves might depend on other packages which are not
needed at all), and to provide a common and consistent interface as far as
function and arguments naming, NA handling, recycling rules etc. are
concerned. Google style guides were used as naming rules (in absence of
convincing alternatives). The 'camel style' was consequently applied to
functions borrowed from contributed R packages as well. |