[R] applying a function recursively

[Charles C. Berry]

See

 	?rapply

for your example

 	rapply( test.list, rev, how='replace' )

HTH,

Chuck

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Georg Otto wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about applying a function recursively through a
> list. Suppose I have a list where the different elements have
> different levels of recursion:
>
>
>> test.list<-list("I"=list("A"=c("a", "b", "c"), "B"=c("d", "e", "f"), "C"=c("g", "h", "i")),
> +                 "II"=list("A"=list("a"=c("a", "b", "c"), "b"=c("d", "e", "f"),
> +                             "c"=c("g", "h", "i")),
> +                   "B"=c("d", "e", "f"), "C"=c("g", "h", "i")))
>
>> test.list
> $I
> $I$A
> [1] "a" "b" "c"
>
> $I$B
> [1] "d" "e" "f"
>
> $I$C
> [1] "g" "h" "i"
>
>
> $II
> $II$A
> $II$A$a
> [1] "a" "b" "c"
>
> $II$A$b
> [1] "d" "e" "f"
>
> $II$A$c
> [1] "g" "h" "i"
>
>
> $II$B
> [1] "d" "e" "f"
>
> $II$C
> [1] "g" "h" "i"
>
>
>
> I would like to apply a function recursively to that list, in a way
> that the function does someting with each vector (eg. rev()) and
> returns a list of modified vectors that has the same structure as the
> input list, in my example:
>
>
> $I
> $I$A
> [1] "c" "b" "a"
>
> $I$B
> [1] "f" "e" "d"
>
> $I$C
> [1] "i" "h" "g"
>
>
> $II
> $II$A
> $II$A$a
> [1] "c" "b" "a"
>
> $II$A$b
> [1] "f" "e" "d"
>
> $II$A$c
> [1] "i" "h" "g"
>
>
> $II$B
> [1] "f" "e" "d"
>
> $II$C
> [1] "i" "h" "g"
>
>
>
> I understand that with a fixed number of recursion levels one can use
> lapply() in a nested way, but what if the numbers of recursion levels
> is not fixed or is different between the list elements as it is in my
> example?
>
> Any hint will be appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Georg
>
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