[R] Scaling a column in groups

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

c(apply(matrix(testdata, 25), 2, scale))

On Nov 16, 2007 9:20 AM, john seers (IFR) <john.seers at bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello R people
>
> I have a column of numeric values that are grouped in blocks of 25 and
> to be centered and scaled within each block. (That is subtract the mean
> and divide by the standard deviation.)
>
> Is there a neater way to do this? i.e not using a loop?
>
> Example looped code:
>
> testdata<-1:100
> csvalues<-NULL
> for (i in 1:(length(testdata)/25)) {
>    st<-(i-1) * 25 + 1
>    sel<-st:(st+24)
>    selvals<-testdata[sel]
>    csvalues<-c(csvalues, scale(selvals, scale=sd(selvals)))
> }
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> John Seers
>
>
>
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