[Rd] apply() returning a list?

[David A. Johnston]

I understand that the coercion to a list is somewhat trivial.  The coercion
is a little less obvious when apply()'s output is a matrix.  For example, 

> x = matrix(1:12, 3, 4)
> apply(x, 1, range)
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    2    3
[2,]   10   11   12

> structure(as.list(as.data.frame(apply(x, 1, range))), names = NULL)
[[1]]
[1]  1 10

[[2]]
[1]  2 11

[[3]]
[1]  3 12


Still relatively easy, but I do think it would be logical and intuitive if
apply() had the same types of arguments as the other similar *apply
functions.  

-David Johnston





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