[R] Outer, kronecker, etc.

baptiste auguie ba208 at exeter.ac.uk
Wed Nov 12 21:06:08 CET 2008


you may want to look into Hadley's new package plyr for this kind of  
operation.

baptiste

On 12 Nov 2008, at 17:51, Stavros Macrakis wrote:

> By-the-way^2: is there some Xapply function that maps a function over
> all the elements of a structure (vector, matrix, list, ...) and
> preserves the original structure?  For example, I'd want
> Xapply(matrix(1:4^2,2,2),sqrt) == sqrt(matrix(1:4^2,2,2)).  In this
> case, I'd use Xapply(as.character,mm), because as.character returns a
> vector.

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