calculate the mean for each column of a matrix in R

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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

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