From edd at debian.org  Mon May 14 16:58:07 2007
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:58:07 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Native implementation of rowMedians()
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On 14 May 2007 at 14:31, Martin Maechler wrote:
| However, I still think that quantiles (and statistics derived
| from them) in general and medians in particular are under-used
| by many user groups. For some useRs, speed can be an important
| reason and for that I had made a big effort to provide runmed()
| in R, and I think it would be worthwhile to provide fast rowwise
| medians and quantiles, here as well.

Seconded.  I don't see anything particular 'bio' about that.  

Dirk

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[Rd] Native implementation of rowMedians()
Dirk Eddelbuettel