Normalize rows or columns by its standard deviation.
Examples
x <- matrix(sample(1:5, 20, rep = TRUE), 4)
normalize(x, 1) # normalizing rows
#> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
#> [1,] 3.726780 2.2360680 3.726780 1.4907120 2.236068
#> [2,] 4.242641 4.2426407 5.656854 2.8284271 4.242641
#> [3,] 3.042903 0.6085806 2.434322 3.0429031 2.434322
#> [4,] 3.162278 2.5298221 1.264911 0.6324555 1.897367
#> attr(,"scaled:scale")
#> [1] 1.3416408 0.7071068 1.6431677 1.5811388
normalize(x, 2) # normalizing columns
#> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
#> [1,] 5 2.3841582 3.973597 1.1547005 6
#> [2,] 3 2.3841582 3.178878 1.1547005 6
#> [3,] 5 0.7947194 3.178878 2.8867513 8
#> [4,] 5 3.1788777 1.589439 0.5773503 6
#> attr(,"scaled:scale")
#> [1] 1.000000 1.258306 1.258306 1.732051 0.500000