[R] mean and array

[David Brahm]

Olivier Martin <olivier.martin at inrialpes.fr> wrote:
> I have an array, one say ar, with 3 dimensions.
> dim(ar)
>  >200   3   4
> I would like to calculate the mean on the third dimension.
> mean(ar[1,1,]),mean(ar[1,2,]) etc..., mean[200,3,].

Reid Huntsinger <reid_huntsinger at merck.com> replied:
> In your example you could use rowMeans(ar) as well, I think.

Specifically: rowMeans(ar, dims=2)
This gives the same result as apply(ar, 1:2, mean), but is faster.
Note rowMeans() and friends were introduced in R-1.5.0.
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