center_df

Scale and/or center the numeric columns of a data frame or tibble

center_df(data, sc = FALSE, cen = TRUE)

Arguments

data	A data frame or tibble
sc	Scale the variables (default FALSE)
cen	Center the variables on their means (default TRUE)

Value

An object of the same class as `data`, with the numeric columns scaled or centered as requested

Details

Takes a data frame or tibble as input and scales and/or centers the numeric columns. By default, centers but doesn't scale

Author

Kieran Healy

Examples

head(center_df(organdata))
#> # A tibble: 6 x 21
#>   country year       donors[,1] pop[,1] pop_dens[,1] gdp[,1] gdp_lag[,1]
#>   <chr>   <date>          <dbl>   <dbl>        <dbl>   <dbl>       <dbl>
#> 1 Austra… NA              NA    -22856.        -11.8  -6212.      -5984.
#> 2 Austra… 1991-01-01      -4.39 -22637.        -11.8  -5815.      -5801.
#> 3 Austra… 1992-01-01      -4.13 -22426.        -11.8  -5072.      -5404.
#> 4 Austra… 1993-01-01      -3.97 -22254.        -11.8  -4103.      -4661.
#> 5 Austra… 1994-01-01      -6.23 -22066.        -11.8  -3137.      -3692.
#> 6 Austra… 1995-01-01      -6.30 -21849.        -11.8  -1907.      -2726.
#> # … with 14 more variables: health[,1] <dbl>, health_lag[,1] <dbl>,
#> #   pubhealth[,1] <dbl>, roads[,1] <dbl>, cerebvas[,1] <dbl>,
#> #   assault[,1] <dbl>, external[,1] <dbl>, txp_pop[,1] <dbl>, world <chr>,
#> #   opt <chr>, consent_law <chr>, consent_practice <chr>, consistent <chr>,
#> #   ccode <chr>