Hi David, Thank you very much. Problem solved.
sapply() and lapply() are so powerful that even I have read their documents several times, still lots of tricky stuff to learn and try. Thank you again! Richard David Winsemius wrote: > > > > sapply(c("hsp", "dal"), function(x) locpoly(x=ts, y=rst[[x]], > bandwidth=bw[[x]], gridsize=gs) ) > hsp dal > x Numeric,350 Numeric,350 > y Numeric,350 Numeric,350 > > > -- > David. >> >> In above example, I can apply the "locpoly()" to each column of >> “rst”. But >> if I want to apply this function to all columns of "rst", I guess I >> should >> use lapply() function. >> >> However, the "bandwidth", one of the locpoly()'s arguments should be >> different due to different columns of "rst". It means that when R >> apply >> locpoly() to first column "hsp", the "bandwidth" should be set as >> correspondent bandwidth. >> >> My problem is, how to pass the "bandwidth" argument to "locpoly" >> within >> lapply() in terms of different column names? >> >> My example just tedious if the "rst" has lots of columns. So I >> wonder if >> there exist more convenient way to get this job done. >> >> Thank you. >> >> ----- >> Richard Ma >> PhD student, Ecology & Remote Sensing >> Climate Change Cluster, Department of Environment Science >> University of Technology, Sydney >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-pass-different-arguments-to-a-function-within-lapply-tp3728858p3728858.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ----- Richard Ma PhD student, Ecology & Remote Sensing Climate Change Cluster, Department of Environment Science University of Technology, Sydney -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-pass-different-arguments-to-a-function-within-lapply-tp3728858p3729070.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.