dear monks,

i wanted to give Data::Table a try for generating summary statics on a text file from within perl.

given a table such as 

#! /usr/bin/perl 
use Data::Table;

my $t = new Data::Table(
 [
 ['a', 1000, 2000, 3000, 200,500],
 ['b', 2000, 1000, 1000, 700,800],
 ['c', 3000, 3000, 3000, 5,7],
 ],
 ['Name', 'value1', 'value2', 'value3', 'value4', 'value5'], 0);

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what would be the easiest way to get a new column in the table object with the mean of 'value1', 'value2', 'value3' and a separate new column with the mean of 'value4', 'value5'. group is obviously not made for the task.

thanks for any ideas!

sisterdot

In reply to summary statistics using Data::Table by sisterdot

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