On Aug 3, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Ram09 wrote: > Yes, I've been using the scale function but I don't know how to write a line > of code that will scale the scores in each variable independently of each > other instead of as a whole.
You do not appear to be reading the help page for `scale`. > In other words, how can I get the scale > function to standardize all the scores in one variable (column) then move on > to the the next, so on and so forth for the whole dataset without having to > tediously type out the same line of code for each variable? This is the first Line of text in the help page: "'scale' is generic function whose default method centers and/or scales the columns of a numeric matrix." If you do not want the result as a matrix then you can use lapply on a dataframe. -- David. R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
