[Rd] Native implementation of rowMedians()

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Mon May 14 16:58:07 CEST 2007


On 14 May 2007 at 14:31, Martin Maechler wrote:
| However, I still think that quantiles (and statistics derived
| from them) in general and medians in particular are under-used
| by many user groups. For some useRs, speed can be an important
| reason and for that I had made a big effort to provide runmed()
| in R, and I think it would be worthwhile to provide fast rowwise
| medians and quantiles, here as well.

Seconded.  I don't see anything particular 'bio' about that.  

Dirk

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