Why do we use the summary function?

summary() function in R Language is a generic function used to produce result summaries of the results of various model fitting functions.

 

# R program to illustrate

# summary function

 

# Initializing a character and

# integer vector

x <- c("GFG", "gfg", "Geek", "Geeks")

y <- c(1, 2, 3, 4)

 

# Calling summary() function

summary(x)

summary(y)

Output:

 

Length Class Mode

4 character character

 

Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.

1.00 1.75 2.50 2.50 3.25 4.00