[R] Dummy newbie question

[John Fox]

Dear Julien,

Assuming that the data frame contains only numeric data, you can use apply: 
apply(data, 1, sum) will give you the row sums, and apply(data, 2, sum) the 
column sums.

John


At 09:49 AM 4/24/2002 +0200, Julien Barnier wrote:

>Excuse me for a so dummy question, but I really can't manage to do this
>very simple thing : I have a data frame, and I would like to calculate
>two vectors which contain the sums respectively of the rows and of the
>columns of the matrix.

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