> data(iris)
> head(iris)
 Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
> x <- matrix(rnorm(750), 150, 5)
> apply(x,1,mean)
  [1]  0.659387698  0.431731860  0.134566944 -0.189169333  0.194876124
  [6]  0.880537038 -0.871515871 -0.296238805  0.030139431  0.377331394
 [11] -0.735135463  0.027529597  0.274933609  0.158953010 -0.123462350
 [16] -0.422585255  0.328762801  0.396664601  0.729689214  0.172078383
 [21]  0.058934330  0.616034007 -0.056157564 -0.338974790 -0.801289908
 [26] -0.500203953 -0.380118923  0.078170700  0.335604031 -0.414949871
 [31]  0.245320129  0.018508156  0.078367765 -0.151087871 -0.883318138
 [36] -0.350814244 -0.440460626 -0.058596714  0.420784146 -0.313211658
 [41] -0.259304865 -0.127707105  0.462488702  0.034952835  0.529501711
 [46] -0.528424177 -0.283491315  0.475358502 -0.286423532  0.318280993
 [51]  0.612352556  0.097170006  0.316715233 -0.341018337  0.118983702
 [56] -0.534898281 -0.325978637  0.582299452 -0.594499389 -0.274230487
 [61]  0.329452697 -0.618480232 -0.653095787  0.529996383  0.276090231
 [66] -0.056896218 -0.197979558  0.005495474 -0.871490367  0.521324232
 [71] -0.072085433  0.126642772  0.224640771  0.361575396 -0.913408163
 [76] -0.204381686 -0.290780112 -0.438781412 -0.367274920 -0.393090909
 [81] -0.335248632 -0.104692780 -0.162249250 -0.582973404 -0.418817111
 [86]  0.276867813 -0.938181111  0.138681945 -0.215487302  0.811490263
 [91]  0.060699050 -0.577839758 -0.112169037 -0.020605406 -0.174738488
 [96] -0.581888158 -0.281843044 -0.415132070 -0.488300154 -0.276114402
[101]  0.139524227  0.642782846  0.033891593 -0.581783999 -0.089440486
[106]  0.029351132  0.310578168  0.185419988  0.520155027 -0.042835389
[111]  0.481857371 -0.002670153 -0.060409958 -0.716541686 -0.179149379
[116]  0.446914092 -0.367886059 -0.243514051  0.936486431 -0.189549581
[121]  0.498096696  0.068948777  0.252417161  0.696250324  0.044326030
[126] -0.802097460  0.327962117  0.031417215 -0.258312148 -0.201025617
[131] -0.326132586  0.354112435  0.797817720 -0.508647052  0.317164893
[136]  0.893685340 -0.408718083  0.346260595  0.142502264 -0.086496276
[141] -0.833993296  0.302655669 -0.216245487 -0.873299745  0.325425776
[146] -0.113109722 -0.497896434  0.416767110 -0.254933317 -0.616783716
> summary(iris)
  Sepal.Length    Sepal.Width     Petal.Length    Petal.Width   
 Min.   :4.300   Min.   :2.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :0.100  
 1st Qu.:5.100   1st Qu.:2.800   1st Qu.:1.600   1st Qu.:0.300  
 Median :5.800   Median :3.000   Median :4.350   Median :1.300  
 Mean   :5.843   Mean   :3.057   Mean   :3.758   Mean   :1.199  
 3rd Qu.:6.400   3rd Qu.:3.300   3rd Qu.:5.100   3rd Qu.:1.800  
 Max.   :7.900   Max.   :4.400   Max.   :6.900   Max.   :2.500  
       Species  
 setosa    :50  
 versicolor:50  
 virginica :50