[Rd] RFC: sapply() limitation from vector to matrix, but not further
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Tue Dec 28 16:49:49 CET 2010
>>>>> Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
>>>>> on Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:06:25 -0500 writes:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Martin Maechler
> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> My proposal -- implemented and "make check" tested -- is
>> to add an optional argument 'ARRAY' which allows
>>
>>> sapply(v, myF, y = 2*(1:5), ARRAY=TRUE)
> It would reduce the proliferation of arguments if the
> simplify= argument were extended to allow this,
> e.g. simplify = "array" or perhaps simplify = n would
> allow a maximum of n dimensions.
That's a good idea, though it makes the
implementation/documentation very slightly more complicated.
I'm interested to get more feedback on my other questions,
notably the only about *changing* vapply() (on the C-level) to
behave "logical" in the sense of adding one dim(.)ension in
those cases, the FUN.VALUE (result prototype) has a dim().
Martin
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