> A well-designed API generalized to work with arrays should probably
> borrow ideas from how argument 'MARGIN' of apply() works, how argument
> 'dim' in rowSums() for (though I must say the letter seem a bit ad hoc
> at first sight given the name of the function).  There may also be
> something to learn from the 'reshape' package and so.

I'd also recommend looking at plyr::aaply, which fixes a few things
that have always annoyed me about apply - namely that it is not
idempotent/identical to aperm when the summary function is the
identity.

Hadley

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Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/

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