No, that does not work. You cannot do assignment within (l)apply. Nor in any other function for that matter.
Nick Sabbe -- ping: nick.sa...@ugent.be link: http://biomath.ugent.be wink: A1.056, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent ring: 09/264.59.36 -- Do Not Disapprove -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Alaios Sent: woensdag 27 april 2011 11:37 To: R-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Assignments inside lapply Dear all I would like to ask you if an assignment can be done inside a lapply statement. For example I would like to covert a double nested for loop for (i in c(1:dimx)){ for (j in c(1:dimy)){ Powermap[i,j] <- Pr(c(i,j),c(PRX,PRY),f) } } to something like that: ij<-expand.grid(i=seq(1:dimx),j=(1:dimy)) unlist(lapply(1:nrow(ij),function(rowId) { return (Powermap[i,j]<-Pr(c(ij$i[rowId],ij$j[rowId]),c(PRX,PRY),f)) })) as you can see lapply does not return nothing as the assignment is done inside the function. Would that work correctly? What are the cases such a statement will misfunction? I would like to thank you in advace for your help. Best Regards Alex ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.