[R] Quantile question

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Alternatively,

see rowQuantiles() in the matrixStats package.

/Henrik

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This should do it, for details, see ?apply
>
> a <- matrix(rnorm(10000),100,100)
> t(apply(a, 1, quantile, probs = c(.3, .5)))
>
> Basically you apply() the quantile function to each row (the 1, 2
> would indicate columns) in the object 'a'.
>
> HTH,
>
> Josh
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Takos <zyoungs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Simple Question
>>
>> I have 100x100 matrix and I want to calculte each row's 30,50% quantile
>>
>> ex)
>>
>> a=matrix(rnorm(10000),100,100)
>> quantile(a[1,],c(0.3,0.5))
>> quantile(a[2,],c(0.3,0.5))
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>
>>
>> I want get results at once.
>>
>> so I try quantile(a[1:100,],c(0.3,0.5)) but I can get what I exactly want.
>>
>> How can I calculte that?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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