Data summary using bigsummary

Now that you know how to import and attach a big.matrix object, you can start exploring the data stored in this object. As mentioned before, there is a whole suite of packages designed to explore and analyze data stored as a big.matrix object. In this exercise, you will use the biganalytics package to create summaries.

This exercise is part of the course

Scalable Data Processing in R

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Exercise instructions

The reference object mort from the previous exercise is available in your workspace.

Load the biganalytics package.
Use the colmean() function to get the column means of mort.
Use biganalytics' summary() function to get a summary of the variables.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Load the biganalytics package
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# Get the column means of mort
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# Use biganalytics' summary function to get a summary of the data
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