sd()

 The sd() function computes the standard deviation of a variable.

Example:

# Calculate the standard deviation of Thumb

sd(Fingers$Thumb)

# Alt: use 'data =' argument instead of '$' (produces same output)

sd(~Thumb, data = Fingers)

Example output:

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