var {BiocGenerics}R Documentation

Variance and Standard Deviation

Description

var and sd compute the variance and standard deviation of a vector x.

NOTE: This man page is for the var and sd, S4 generic functions defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?stats::var and ?stats::sd for the default methods (defined in the stats package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects (typically array-like) not supported by the default method.

Usage

     var(x, y = NULL, na.rm = FALSE, use)
     sd(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a vector-like object

y

a vector-like object, or NULL

na.rm, use

see var

Value

See ?stats::var and ?stats::sd for the value returned by the default methods.

Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages will typically return an object of the same class as the input object.

See Also

Examples

var
showMethods("var")
selectMethod("var", "ANY")  # the default method

[Package BiocGenerics version 0.24.0 Index]