[R] outer

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Erich Neuwirth wrote:

> i cannot cajole outer in doing what i want it to do.
>
> i hav a function only defined for scalars
> fun(n,k)
>
> and i want to do
>
> outer(1:5,1:5,function(x,y) fun(x,y))
> (i know this is written somewhat clumsy)
>
> to get an array with the values of fun
> to use it as an input for image
>
> this does not work since
> outer assumes then fun works on arrays elementwise.
>
> what is the easiest way of getting what i want?
>
> outer in some lisp like variants and in mathematica will work with the
> function argument being a
> scalar argument only function.
> r is different here.

Well, R is a vector language and expect functions to handle vector
arguments.  In fact it has no scalars, so I guess you mean that it will
only accept vectors of length one.  You'll need to use loops, implicitly
(via *apply) or explicitly.  Probably best to do this inside f, and make
it conform to the R model.


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