From 442684a5b6f826be03598df8a0ce9be1341fcab2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh <91748819+JoshKImperial@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:14:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow for describe to operate over an entire Matrix

---
 src/scalarstats.jl |  1 +
 test/misc.jl       | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/scalarstats.jl b/src/scalarstats.jl
index 993c8da6b..3878045a1 100644
--- a/src/scalarstats.jl
+++ b/src/scalarstats.jl
@@ -897,6 +897,7 @@ median, 75th percentile, and maxmimum.
 function summarystats(a::AbstractArray{T}) where T<:Union{Real,Missing}
     # `mean` doesn't fail on empty input but rather returns `NaN`, so we can use the
     # return type to populate the `SummaryStats` structure.
+    a = length(size(a)) != 1 ? a[:] : a
     s = T >: Missing ? collect(skipmissing(a)) : a
     m = mean(s)
     R = typeof(m)
diff --git a/test/misc.jl b/test/misc.jl
index 63fc24df9..b4006fa87 100644
--- a/test/misc.jl
+++ b/test/misc.jl
@@ -90,3 +90,16 @@ describe(io, fill("s", 3))
                            Type:           String
                            Number Unique:  1
                            """
+describe(io, reshape(collect(1:100), (10, 10)))
+@test String(take!(io)) == """
+                           Summary Stats:
+                           Length:         100
+                           Missing Count:  0
+                           Mean:           50.500000
+                           Minimum:        1.000000
+                           1st Quartile:   25.750000
+                           Median:         50.500000
+                           3rd Quartile:   75.250000
+                           Maximum:        100.000000
+                           Type:           $Int
+                           """
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