使用 psych::describe() 在 csv 中打印变量名称

Question

I'm using R's psych package. When I use describe() as below to get descriptive statistics of variables, their names appeared in the console but do not appear in the exported csv file.
How can I get this column printed, so that I know which results belong to which variable.

library(psych)
descriptive2 <- describe(mtcars)
write.csv(descriptive2, "temp.csv")

Answer 1

Don't see any issue with your code other than the misspelling of write.csv . The variables are in the row names which are by default printed in the csv file.

library(psych)
write.csv(data.frame(describe(mtcars)),"temp.csv")

Alternative will be:

descriptive2 <- data.frame(describe(mtcars))
descriptive2$vars <- row.names(descriptive2)

Answer 2

Add the argument row.names = TRUE when exporting your csv file. As mentioned @Adam Quek, make sure to correct the function write.csv() .

library(psych)
descriptive2<-describe(mtcars)
write.csv(descriptive2,"temp.csv", row.names = TRUE)