Message-ID: <17024.48967.299990.712469@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Date: 2005-05-10T14:03:51Z
From: David Kane
Subject: summary statistics for lists of matrices or dataframes
Is there a simple way to calculate summary statistics for all the
matrices or dataframes in a list? For example:
> z <- list(matrix(c(2,2,2,2), ncol = 2), matrix(c(4,4,4,4), ncol = 2))
> z
[[1]]
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 2 2
[2,] 2 2
[[2]]
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 4 4
[2,] 4 4
>
I would like to calculate, for example, the mean value for each
cell. I can do that the hard way as:
> (z[[1]] + z[[2]]) / 2
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 3 3
[2,] 3 3
>
But there must be an easier way. I am also interested in other
statistics (like median and sd). Since all my matrices have the same
attributes (especially row and column names), I would like to preserve
those in the answer.
Thanks,
Dave Kane
In case it matters:
> R.version
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platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch i686
os linux-gnu
system i686, linux-gnu
status
major 2
minor 1.0
year 2005
month 04
day 18
language R
>