Modern R Programming Cookbook

How it works…

The multiple-argument function works as it works for a single argument. After giving the name of the function, the statements within curly braces do all the internal calculation. This function takes the numeric vector as input by the numVec argument, and also, the second argument type = specifies the type of summary statistics to be calculated.

After taking the input numeric vector, the function does the following things:

1. It internally calculates all the required statistics such as mean, standard deviation, median, and median absolute deviation.
2. It stores all the calculated values into different objects; in this case, avg contains mean, std contains standard deviation, med contains median, and medad contains median absolute ...