Data frames are lists themselves. Something like
do.call( rbind, lapply( my.data.frame, quantile, probs=c(0.1,0.9)) ) should work. Carlos J. Gil Bellosta http://www.datanalytics.com On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 07:03 -0800, zerfetzen wrote: > I want to apply a more complicated function than what I use in my example, > but the idea is the same: > > Suppose you have a data frame named x and you want to a function applied to > each variable, we'll just use the quantile function for this example. I'm > trying all sorts of apply functions, but not having luck. My best guess > would be: > > sapply(x, FUN=quantile) ______________________________________________ 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.
