[R] lapply to subsets

[Michael Bedward]

Hello Feng,

I think you just want this...

lapply(A, function(x) apply(x[,,-c(1,2)], c(1,2), mean))

Michael


On 13 October 2010 04:00, Feng Li <feng.li at stat.su.se> wrote:
> Dear R,
>
> I have a silly question concerns with *apply. Say I have a list called A,
>
> A <- list(a  =  array(1:20, c(2, 2, 5)), b  = array(1:30, c(2, 3, 5)))
>
> I wish to calculate the mean of A$a, and A$b w.r.t. their third dimension so
> I did
>
> lapply(A,apply,c(1,2),mean)
>
> Now if I still wish to do the above task but take away some burn-in, e.g. do
> not take A$a[,,1:2],and A$b[,,1:2] into account. How can I do then?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Feng
>
>
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