R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing" Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > x <- c(31.5,31.29,31.3,31.06,31.09,31.11,31.13,31.1,31.03,30.74,30.83,30.82,30.8,30.74,30.71,30.58,30.71,30.7,30.7,30.72,30.68,30.78,30.84,30.8,30.8,30.88,30.87,30.92,30.82,30.75,30.75,30.75,30.63,30.52,30.58,30.6,30.6,30.63,30.56,30.61,30.53,30.6,30.6,30.63,30.66,30.34,30.32,30.3,30.3,30.08,29.96,29.91,29.83,29.89,29.85,30.06,29.83,29.95,30.02,30.03,30.03,29.96,29.85,30.12,29.91,29.9,29.92,29.89,29.96,29.72,29.6,29.54,29.54,29.54,29.48,29.55,29.58,29.6,29.6,29.56,29.7,29.76,29.24,29.28) > #'GNU S' R Code compiled by R2WASP v. 1.2.291 () > #Author: root > #To cite this work: Wessa P., (2012), Mean versus Median (v1.0.2) in Free Statistics Software (v$_version), Office for Research Development and Education, URL http://www.wessa.net/rwasp_meanversusmedian.wasp/ > #Source of accompanying publication: Office for Research, Development, and Education > # > library(Hmisc) Loading required package: survival Loading required package: splines Hmisc library by Frank E Harrell Jr Type library(help='Hmisc'), ?Overview, or ?Hmisc.Overview') to see overall documentation. NOTE:Hmisc no longer redefines [.factor to drop unused levels when subsetting. To get the old behavior of Hmisc type dropUnusedLevels(). Attaching package: 'Hmisc' The following object is masked from 'package:survival': untangle.specials The following objects are masked from 'package:base': format.pval, round.POSIXt, trunc.POSIXt, units > m <- mean(x) > e <- median(x) > postscript(file="/var/fisher/rcomp/tmp/1ijum1381421948.ps",horizontal=F,onefile=F,pagecentre=F,paper="special",width=8.3333333333333,height=5.5555555555556) > op <- par(mfrow=c(2,1)) > mydensity1 <- density(x,kernel='gaussian',na.rm=TRUE) > plot(mydensity1,main='Density Plot - Gaussian Kernel',xlab='Median (0 -> full line) | Mean (0 -> dashed line)',ylab='density') > abline(v=e,lty=1) > abline(v=m,lty=5) > grid() > myseq <- seq(0.01, 0.99, 0.01) > hd <- hdquantile(x, probs = myseq, se = TRUE, na.rm = FALSE, names = TRUE, weights=FALSE) > plot(myseq,hd,col=2,main='Harrell-Davis Quantiles',xlab='quantiles',ylab='Median (0 -> full) | Mean (0 -> dashed)') > abline(h=m,lty=5) > abline(h=e,lty=1) > grid() > par(op) > dev.off() null device 1 > > #Note: the /var/fisher/rcomp/createtable file can be downloaded at http://www.wessa.net/cretab > load(file="/var/fisher/rcomp/createtable") > > a<-table.start() > a<-table.row.start(a) > a<-table.element(a,'Median versus Mean',2,TRUE) > a<-table.row.end(a) > a<-table.row.start(a) > a<-table.element(a,'mean',header=TRUE) > a<-table.element(a,mean(x)) > a<-table.row.end(a) > a<-table.row.start(a) > a<-table.element(a,'median',header=TRUE) > a<-table.element(a,median(x)) > a<-table.row.end(a) > a<-table.end(a) > table.save(a,file="/var/fisher/rcomp/tmp/2ss7h1381421948.tab") > > try(system("convert tmp/1ijum1381421948.ps tmp/1ijum1381421948.png",intern=TRUE)) character(0) > > > proc.time() user system elapsed 1.117 0.172 1.270