cwhmisc (version 2.1)

normalize: Normalize vectors

Description

Normalize the columns of a matrix.

Usage

normalize(x)

Arguments

x

the matrix containing the vectors to be normalized as columns.

Value

• The matrix containing the normalized vectors as columns. If you want to normalize the rows of a matrix, use t(normalize(t(x)))

Examples

x <- matrix(rnorm(30),nrow=6)
  normalize(x)
  t(normalize(t(x)))  # normalize the *rows* of x