You might also want to have a look at the plyr package, http://had.co.nz/plyr. This package is an attempt to standardise and make consistent the various common uses of apply and friends.
Hadley On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Peng Yu<pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > There are quiet a few different 'apply' functions, such as lapply, > sapply and many more. I'm very familiar with the 'Apply' function in > Mathematica. Can somebody point me a summary of all the 'apply' > functions in R. Also, I'm curious that what 'l' and 's' (and other > prefixes) stand for in 'lapply' and 'sapply' > > Regards, > Peng > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
