Documentation of colSums et. al (PR#4154)

Peter Dalgaard · 2003-09-15T18:02:02Z

David Brahm writes: > Doug Grove wrote: > > Minor mistake in the documentation on the colSums page. > > In the ARGUMENTS section it states for 'dims' that: > > For `col*', the sum or mean is over dimensions > > `dims+1, ...'; for `row*' it is over dimensions `1:dims'. > > These two are reversed. > > I think Doug is correct, isn't he? For example, with a 5-dimensional array and > dims=3, colSums() sums over the first 3 dimensions (the "rows") and

Peter Dalgaard

Mon, Sep 15, 2003 11:02 AM

David Brahm  <brahm@alum.mit.edu> writes:

Quite possibly, it got engulfed in spam... Thomas did the move along
with several spam messages, but Brian had already fixed the typo at
that point. The current text reads


    dims: Which dimensions are regarded as "rows" or "columns" to sum
          over.  For 'row*', the sum or mean is over dimensions
          'dims+1, ...'; for 'col*' it is over dimensions '1:dims'.

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Documentation of colSums et. al (PR#4154)

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