averageColumns: Averages columns together

In uzh/ezRun: An R meta-package for the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data

Averages columns together

Description

Rearranges and averages columns according to by.

Usage

averageColumns(
  x,
  by = NULL,
  func = function(x) {
     mean(x, na.rm = TRUE)
 }
)

Arguments

x	the matrix whose columns should be averaged.
by	an integer or vector by which to average and/or rearrange columns.
func	the function to apply to the result. Default: mean with removing NAs.

Value

Returns a vector or matrix of averaged columns.

Author(s)

Rehrauer, Hubert

Schmid, Peter

Examples

m1 = matrix(1:20,5)
rownames(m1) = 1:5
m2 = averageColumns(m1,1)
m3 = averageColumns(m1,c(4,2,3,1))
m4 = averageColumns(m1,c(1,1,2,2))

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