Sample code to generate descriptive statistics

Stata

In Stata,the native ‘codebook’ command can generate such information:

// Stata
use my_input_data
describe
codebook

See code/01_codebook_fancy.md for a fancier example, and code/02_codebook_plaintext.md for the code and output from the simpler example.

R

In R, the dataMaid [1], [2] can accomplish a similar task:

# use the    dataMaid   package
library(dataMaid)
makeCodebook(my_input_data)

See code/03_codebook_dataMaid for an example.

SAS

In SAS, PROC CONTENTS and PROC MEANS may very well provide all that is needed:

proc contents;
proc means;
run;

See code/04_codebook_SAS for an example.