standardize: Rescale variables, possibly excluding some columns

In ck37r: Chris Kennedy's R Toolkit

Description

Simple extension to base::scale() to skip columns.

Usage

standardize(x, skip_vars = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	Dataframe or matrix, assumed to have column names.
skip_vars	List of names of variables not to scale.
...	Extra arguments passed-through to base::scale

Value

Data-frame with appropriate variables scaled.

See Also

scale

Examples

library(ck37r)

data(Boston, package = "MASS")

# Don't scale our outcome variable.
data = standardize(Boston, skip_vars = "medv")

summary(data)

ck37r documentation built on Feb. 6, 2020, 5:09 p.m.