> On 4 May 2017, at 20:13, Murat Tasan <mmu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The only semi-efficient method I've found around this is to `apply` across
> rows (more accurately through blocks of rows coerced into dense
> sub-matrices of P), but I'd like to try to remove the looping logic from my
> codebase if I can, and I'm wondering if perhaps there's a built-in in the
> Matrix package (that I'm just not aware of) that helps with this particular
> type of computation.

The "wordspace" package has an efficient C-level implementation for this 
purpose:

        P.norm <- normalize.rows(P)

which is a short-hand for

        P.norm <- scaleMargins(P, rows=1 / rowNorms(P, method="euclidean"))

Best,
Stefan
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