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(-2.5,4.4,13.7,12.3,13.4,2.2,1.7,-7.2,-4.8,-2.9,-2.4,-2.5,-5.3,-7.1,-8,-8.9,-7.7,-1.1,4,9.6,10.9,13,14.9,20.1,10.8,11,3.8,10.8,7.6,10.2,2.2,-0.1,-1.7,-4.8,-9.9,-13.5,-18.1,-18,-15.7,-15.2,-15.1,-17.9,-14.5,-9.4,-4.2,-2.2,4.5,12.4,15.8,11.5,14.1,18.8,26.1,27.9,25.4,23.4,11.5,9.9,8.1,12.6,8.2,5.4,1,-2.9,-3.7,-7,-7.2,-11.8,-2.1,1.2,2.5,4.8,-6.6,-16,-22.7,-17.7,-18.2,-18.9,-16,-12.2,-17.1,-18.6,-17.5,-24.9) > #'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/1i38y1381494053.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/2egtb1381494053.tab") > > try(system("convert tmp/1i38y1381494053.ps tmp/1i38y1381494053.png",intern=TRUE)) character(0) > > > proc.time() user system elapsed 1.118 0.135 1.235