| apply {base} | R Documentation |
Returns a vector or array or list of values obtained by applying a function to margins of an array.
apply(x, MARGIN, FUN, ...)
x |
the array to be used. |
MARGIN |
a vector giving the subscripts which the function will
be applied over.
1 indicates rows, 2 indicates columns,
c(1,2) indicates rows and columns. |
FUN |
the function to be applied.
In the case of functions like +, %*%, etc., the
function name must be quoted. |
... |
optional arguments to FUN. |
If each call to FUN returns a vector of length n, then
apply returns an array of dimension c(n,dim(x)[MARGIN])
if n > 1. If n equals 1, apply returns a
vector if MARGIN has length 1 and an array of dimension
dim(x)[MARGIN] otherwise.
If the calls to FUN return vectors of different lengths,
apply returns a list of length dim(x)[MARGIN].
lapply, tapply, and convenience functions
sweep and aggregate.
## Compute row and column sums for a matrix:
x <- cbind(x1 = 3, x2 = c(4:1, 2:5))
dimnames(x)[[1]] <- letters[1:8]
apply(x, 2, mean, trim = .2)
col.sums <- apply(x, 2, sum)
row.sums <- apply(x, 1, sum)
rbind(cbind(x, Rtot = row.sums), Ctot = c(col.sums, sum(col.sums)))
all( apply(x,2, is.vector)) # TRUE [was not in R <= 0.63.2]
## Sort the columns of a matrix
apply(x, 2, sort)
##- function with extra args:
cave <- function(x, c1,c2) c(mean(x[c1]),mean(x[c2]))
apply(x,1, cave, c1="x1", c2=c("x1","x2"))
ma <- matrix(c(1:4, 1, 6:8), nr = 2)
ma
apply(ma, 1, table) #--> a list of length 2
apply(ma, 1, quantile)# 5 x n matrix with rownames
all(dim(ma) == dim(apply(ma, 1:2, sum)))## wasn't ok before R 0.63.1