pbdDMAT (version 0.5-1)

sd: Covariance and Correlation

Description

sd() will compute the standard deviations of the columns, equivalent to calling apply(x, MARGIN=2, FUN=sd) (which will work for distributed matrices, by the way). However, this should be much faster and use less memory than apply(). If reduce=FALSE then the return is a distributed matrix consisting of one (global) row; otherwise, an R vector is returned, with ownership of this vector determined by proc.dest.

Usage

# S4 method for ddmatrix
sd(x, na.rm = FALSE, reduce = FALSE,
  proc.dest = "all")
# S4 method for ANY
sd(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

numeric distributed matrices.

na.rm

Logical; if TRUE, then na.exclude() is called first.

reduce

logical or string. See details

proc.dest

Destination process (or 'all') if a reduction occurs

Value

Returns a distributed matrix.