[R] getting sapply to skip columns with non-numeric data?
r user
ruser2006 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 18 00:04:06 CEST 2006
getting s-apply to skip columns with non-numeric data?
I have a dataframe x of w columns.
Some columns are numeric, some are not.
I wish to create a function to calculate the mean and
standard deviation of each numeric column, and then
bind the column mean and standard deviation to the
bottom of the dataframe.
e.g.
tempmean <- apply(data.frame(x), 2, mean, na.rm = T)
xnew <- rbind(x,tempmean)
I am running into one small problem
what is the best
way to have sapply skip the non-numeric data and
return NAs?
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