[R] more about outer

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at> writes:

> this is my current answer to my own question.
> should we have such a funcion in a more general version
> (i.e. with an arbitraty number of argument lists, for n-ary
> functions)
> in the core language?
> 
> myouter<-function(x,y,fun){
> t(sapply(x,function(arg1) sapply(y,function(arg2) fun(arg1,arg2))))
> }

I'd be partial to this kind of constructions 

vectorize2 <- function(f) 
    function(x, y,...)
        sapply(seq, along=x, function(i)f(x[i],y[i],...))

so that you can simply do

outer(x, y, vectorize2(fun))

A similar technique for functions of one variable would be

vectorize <- function(f) 
    function(x, ...)
        sapply(x, f)


The case of N variables is -um- interesting...

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