[R] help with median for each row

[Erik Iverson]

Edward,

In general, if you have an nxn matrix, you can use the "apply" function to apply a function to each row of the matrix, and return the result. 

So, as a start, you could do, 

apply(your.mat, 1, median) 

or

apply(your.mat, 1, median, na.rm = TRUE) 

if you want to pass further arguments to median... You can also write your own function and pass it in, of course: 

E.g.,

apply(your.mat, 1, function(x) sum(x)+1001)

See ?apply.  

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Edward Chen
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:50 AM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] help with median for each row

Hi,

I tried looking through google search on whether there's a way to computer
the median for each row of a nxn matrix and return the medians for each row
for further computation.
And also if the number of columns in the matrix are even, how could I
specify which median to use?

Thank you very much!

-- 
Edward Chen

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