Indeed. But perhaps it's also worth noting that if such statistics are calculated as implementations of (e.g. anova) formulae still found (sadly) in many statistics texts, then they shouldn't be calculated at all. Rather, the appropriate matrix methods (e.g. QR decompositions ) built into R -- many of which are already incorporated into R's statistical corpus -- should be used. To say more would of course be far O/T.
Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:44 PM Peter Langfelder <peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote: > It should be said that for many basic statistics, there are faster > functions than apply, for example here you want > > sum = colSums(x) > > As already said, for sum of squares you would do colSums(x^2). > > Many useful functions of this kind are implemented in package > matrixStats. Once you install it, either look at the package manual or > type ls("package:matrixStats") to see a list of functions. Most if not > all have self-explanatory names. > > HTH, > > Peter > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:28 PM Steven Yen <st...@ntu.edu.tw> wrote: > > > > I need help with "apply". Below, I have no problem getting the column > sums. > > 1. How do I get the sum of squares? > > 2. In general, where do I look up these functions? > > Thanks. > > > > x<-matrix(1:10,nrow=5); x > > sum <- apply(x,2,sum); sum > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.