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Apply Functions Over Array Margins

Syntax

apply(x, MARGIN, FUN, ...)

Arguments

x the array to be used.
MARGIN a vector giving the subscripts which the function will be applied over. 1 indicates rows, 2 indicates columns, c(1,2) indicates rows and columns.
FUN the function to be applied. In the case of functions like +, %*%, etc., the function name must be quoted.
... optional arguments to FUN.

Value

If each call to FUN returns a vector of length n, then apply returns an array of dimension c(n,dim(x)[MARGIN]) if n > 1. If LANG(n EQUALS 1), LANG(apply) returns a vector if MARGIN has length 1 and an array of dimension dim(x)[MARGIN] otherwise.

Examples

# Compute row and column sums for a matrix col.sums <- apply(x, 2, sum) row.sums <- apply(x, 1, sum) # Sort the columns of a matrix sorted <- apply(x, 2, sort)