If you want to scale within columns, you could try

 cbind( scale(df[,1:2]), df[ ,-c(1:2)] )
    a  b c  d
 1 -1 -1 7 10
 2  0  0 8 11
 3  1  1 9 12

and it is data.frame() btw.


On 01/09/2010 15:35, Olga Lyashevska wrote:
Dear all,

I have a dataframe:
df<-dataframe(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(4,5,6),c=c(7,8,9),d=c(10,11,12))

I want to obtain a new dataframe with columns a and b being standardized
((x-mean(x))/sd(x)); the other two columns (c,d) I want to leave
unchanged. What is the best way to achieve this? I have been trying to
use subscripts but did not succeed so far.

Any tips?

Many thanks,
Olga

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