# The Scaling and centering Matrices

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**Created:** [November 15, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-scaling-and-centering-matrices/50186 "2020-11-15T15:00:55Z")\
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A simple analogue of R’s [`scale(A)` function](https://www.math.ucla.edu/~anderson/rw1001/library/base/html/scale.html) (with the default arguments) would be:

```julia
using LinearAlgebra, Statistics
scale(A) = mapslices(normalize!, A .- mean(A,dims=1), dims=1)

```

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