[R] scaling variables consecutively and independently

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Mon Aug 3 21:42:10 CEST 2015


On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Ram09 wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> So I am very new to R and I'm having some trouble.  I basically have around
> 110 datasets each one made up of around 100 variables.  I am trying to
> z-score the scores in each column but independently of each other ( each
> column independent of the other).  The problem is that there are just too
> many variables in each dataset to compute individually.  I figured there
> should be some type of loop that I can do in which it would scale the scores
> in each column and then move on to the next but I haven't been able to find
> anything about this.  Can anyone help?  Thanks so much!

Perhaps you are looking for the 'scale'-function?

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