## Sweep out Array Summaries

## Usage

    sweep(x, MARGIN, STATS, FUN="-", ...)

## Arguments

`x` | an array.
`MARGIN` | a giving the extents of `x` which correspond to `STATS`.
`STATS` | the summary statistic which is to be swept out.
`FUN` | the function to be used to carry out the sweep. In the case of binary operators such as `"/"` etc., the function name must be quoted.
`...` | optional arguments to `FUN`.

## Value

An array with the same shape as `x`, but with the summary statistics swept out.

## See Also

`apply`.

## Examples

    data(attitude)
    med.att <- apply(attitude, 2, median)
    sweep(data.matrix(attitude), 2, med.att)# subtract the column medians

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