Hello Paul I have also tried this one distrList<-c("norm","lnorm","pois","exp","gamma","nbinom","geom","logis"); return (lapply(distrList, function(distrList) { fitdist(x1,distrList)}));
which seems to work. I am not sure though if there is a strict performance penalty. B.R Alex ________________________________ From: Paul Hiemstra <paul.hiems...@knmi.nl> Cc: "R-help@r-project.org" <R-help@r-project.org> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [R] apply and functions with many arguments On 10/06/2011 08:03 AM, Alaios wrote: Dear all, I would like to use the following function fitdist(data, distr, method=c("mle", "mme", "qme", "mge"), start=NULL, fix.arg=NULL, ...) for many different distr values like distr=c("norm","lnorm","pois") (just a small example) and take back into a list the parameter name which is what is inside distr plus what the function fitdist returns (another list). How can I do that ? B.R Alex [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > ______________________________________________ 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. Hi, Take a look at 'expand.grid' and 'ddply' from the plyr package or foreach from the foreach package. cheers, Paul -- Paul Hiemstra, Ph.D. Global Climate Division Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Wilhelminalaan 10 | 3732 GK | De Bilt | Kamer B 3.39 P.O. Box 201 | 3730 AE | De Bilt tel: +31 30 2206 494 http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hiemstra/20/30b/770 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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