dataframe

For a dataframe, produces descriptive statistics (summary statistics) for its numeric columns.

This command requires a plugin

The polars summary command resides in the polars plugin. To use this command, you must install and register nu_plugin_polars. See the Plugins chapter in the book for more information.

Signature

> polars summary {flags}

Flags

• --quantiles, -q {list<float>}: provide optional quantiles

Input/output types:

input	output
any	any

Examples

list dataframe descriptives

> [[a b]; [1 1] [1 1]] | polars into-df | polars summary
╭───┬────────────┬─────────┬─────────╮
│ # │ descriptor │ a (i64) │ b (i64) │
├───┼────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ 0 │ count      │    2.00 │    2.00 │
│ 1 │ sum        │    2.00 │    2.00 │
│ 2 │ mean       │    1.00 │    1.00 │
│ 3 │ median     │    1.00 │    1.00 │
│ 4 │ std        │    0.00 │    0.00 │
│ 5 │ min        │    1.00 │    1.00 │
│ 6 │ 25%        │    1.00 │    1.00 │
│ 7 │ 50%        │    1.00 │    1.00 │
│ 8 │ 75%        │    1.00 │    1.00 │
│ 9 │ max        │    1.00 │    1.00 │
╰───┴────────────┴─────────┴─────────╯