dataframe - calculate the mean for each column of a matrix in R

Question

I am working on R in R studio. I need to calculate the mean for each column of a data frame.

 cluster1  // 5 by 4 data frame
 mean(cluster1) // 

I got :

  Warning message:
  In mean.default(cluster1) :
  argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA

But I can use

  mean(cluster1[[1]])

to get the mean of the first column.

How to get means for all columns ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use colMeans:

### Sample data
set.seed(1)
m <- data.frame(matrix(sample(100, 20, replace = TRUE), ncol = 4))

### Your error
mean(m)
# [1] NA
# Warning message:
# In mean.default(m) : argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA

### The result using `colMeans`
colMeans(m)
#   X1   X2   X3   X4 
# 47.0 64.4 44.8 67.8