[R] Multiplication of data frame with vector

[David Freedman]

Would the scale function work for this?  Something like
new=scale(df, center=T)

HTH,
david freedman

cir p wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear group:
> sorry for my beginners question, but I'm rather new to R and was searching
> high and low without success:
> 
> I have a data frame (df) with variables in the rows and observations in
> the columns like (the actual data frame has 15 columns and 1789 rows):
> 
>           early1 early2 early3 early4 early5
> M386T1000  57056  55372  58012  55546  57309
> M336T90    11063  10312  10674  10840  11208
> M427T91    12064  11956  12692  12340  11924
> M429T91     4594   3890   4096   4019   4204
> M447T90    26553  27647  26889  26751  26929
> 
> Now I'm trying to transform each value column-wise to make columns to all
> have the same mean with:
> 
> df * mean(mean(df)) / mean(df).
> 
> I just can't get my head around this: mean(df) gives me the correct column
> means vector, and mean(mean(df)) gives me the correct total mean. The
> above operation works correctly for individual rows, i.e. if I do
>  df[1,]*mean(mean(df))/mean(df)
> 
> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong??
> Thanks!
> 
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