apply {base} | R Documentation |
Returns a vector or array or list of values obtained by applying a function to margins of an array.
apply(X, MARGIN, FUN, ...)
X |
the array to be used. |
MARGIN |
a vector giving the subscripts which the function will
be applied over.
|
FUN |
the function to be applied: see ‘Details’.
In the case of functions like |
... |
optional arguments to |
If X
is not an array but has a dimension attribute,
apply
attempts to coerce it to an array via as.matrix
if it is two-dimensional (e.g., data frames) or via as.array
.
FUN
is found by a call to match.fun
and typically
is either a function or a symbol (e.g. a backquoted name) or a
character string specifying a function to be searched for from the
environment of the call to apply
.
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 n
equals 1
, apply
returns a
vector if MARGIN
has length 1 and an array of dimension
dim(X)[MARGIN]
otherwise.
If n
is 0
, the result has length 0 but not necessarily
the ‘correct’ dimension.
If the calls to FUN
return vectors of different lengths,
apply
returns a list of length prod(dim(X)[MARGIN])
with
dim
set to MARGIN
if this has length greater than one.
In all cases the result is coerced by as.vector
to one
of the basic vector types before the dimensions are set, so that (for
example) factor results will be coerced to a character array.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
lapply
, tapply
, and convenience functions
sweep
and aggregate
.
## Compute row and column sums for a matrix:
x <- cbind(x1 = 3, x2 = c(4:1, 2:5))
dimnames(x)[[1]] <- letters[1:8]
apply(x, 2, mean, trim = .2)
col.sums <- apply(x, 2, sum)
row.sums <- apply(x, 1, sum)
rbind(cbind(x, Rtot = row.sums), Ctot = c(col.sums, sum(col.sums)))
stopifnot( apply(x, 2, is.vector))
## Sort the columns of a matrix
apply(x, 2, sort)
##- function with extra args:
cave <- function(x, c1, c2) c(mean(x[c1]), mean(x[c2]))
apply(x,1, cave, c1="x1", c2=c("x1","x2"))
ma <- matrix(c(1:4, 1, 6:8), nrow = 2)
ma
apply(ma, 1, table) #--> a list of length 2
apply(ma, 1, stats::quantile)# 5 x n matrix with rownames
stopifnot(dim(ma) == dim(apply(ma, 1:2, sum)))
## Example with different lengths for each call
z <- array(1:24, dim=2:4)
zseq <- apply(z, 1:2, function(x) seq_len(max(x)))
zseq ## a 2 x 3 matrix
typeof(zseq) ## list
dim(zseq) ## 2 3
zseq[1,]
apply(z, 3, function(x) seq_len(max(x)))
# a list without a dim attribute