On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 08:31:56PM +0200, oliver wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:12:30PM +0000, Ravi Varadhan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Currently, the "base" has colSums, colMeans. It seems that it would be > > useful to extend this to also include colMin, colMax (of course, rowMin and > > rowMax, as well) in order to facilitate faster computations for large > > vectors > > (compared to using apply). Has this been considered before? Please > > forgive me > > if this has already been discussed before. > [...] > > Not sure if the performance of apply is so much of a problem, > but also from a view of consistency of the provided > functions, I think offering such functions would make > it more clear and consitent to use R here, because > all those functions are then available for row and col > and the functionality is appended in the name (Mean, Sum etc.). > > I think the basic things that should be available woud be: > > - mean > - median > - min > - max > - var > - sd - sum :-) - diff
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