A helper function to standardize a filebacked matrix
standardize_filebacked(X, outfile, quiet, tocenter = TRUE)A list with a component called std_X - this is a filebacked big.matrix with column-standardized data.
List also includes several other indices/meta-data on the standardized matrix
A big.matrix object that has been subset &/or had any additional predictors appended as columns
Optional: the name (character string) of the logfile to be written.
Logical: should console messages be silenced? Defaults to FALSE
Should the matrix be centered in addition to scaled? Defaults to TRUE.