[R] correlation

[John Fox]

Dear Laurence,

At 06:21 PM 8/21/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>I have a file (a matrix) on which I have to compute the correlations.
>The function "cov" compute the correlations
>between the columns of a matrix, but I want to compute the correlations
>between the raws.

Actually, cov computes covariances; cor computes correlations


>Can somebody say to me how I can carry out that?

Just transpose the matrix, as in cor(t(x)).

I hope that this helps,
  John
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