[R] scaling variables consecutively and independently

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 3, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Ram09 wrote:

> Yes, I've been using the scale function but I don't know how to write a line
> of code that will scale the scores in each variable independently of each
> other instead of as a whole.

You do not appear to be reading the help page for `scale`.

>  In other words, how can I get the scale
> function to standardize all the scores in one variable (column) then move on
> to the the next, so on and so forth for the whole dataset without having to
> tediously type out the same line of code for each variable? 

This is the first Line of text in the help page:

"'scale' is generic function whose default method centers and/or scales the columns of a numeric matrix."

If you do not want the result as a matrix then you can use lapply on a dataframe.

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