| mapply {base} | R Documentation |
Apply a Function to Multiple List or Vector Arguments
Description
mapply is a multivariate version of sapply.
mapply applies FUN to the first elements of each ...
argument, the second elements, the third elements, and so on.
Arguments are recycled if necessary.
.mapply() is a bare-bones version of mapply(), e.g., to be
used in other functions.
Usage
mapply(FUN, ..., MoreArgs = NULL, SIMPLIFY = TRUE,
USE.NAMES = TRUE)
.mapply(FUN, dots, MoreArgs)
Arguments
FUN |
function to apply, found via |
... |
arguments to vectorize over, will be recycled to common length (zero if one of them is). See also ‘Details’. |
dots |
|
MoreArgs |
a list of other arguments to |
SIMPLIFY |
logical or character string; attempt to reduce the
result to a vector, matrix or higher dimensional array; see
the |
USE.NAMES |
logical; use the names of the first ... argument, or if that is an unnamed character vector, use that vector as the names. |
Details
mapply calls FUN for the values of ...
(re-cycled to the length of the longest, unless any have length zero
where recycling to zero length will return list()),
followed by the arguments given in MoreArgs. The arguments in
the call will be named if ... or MoreArgs are named.
For the arguments in ... (or components in dots) class specific
subsetting (such as [) and length methods will be
used where applicable.
Value
A list, or for SIMPLIFY = TRUE, a vector, array or list.
See Also
sapply, after which mapply() is modelled.
outer, which applies a vectorized function to all
combinations of two arguments.
Examples
mapply(rep, 1:4, 4:1)
mapply(rep, times = 1:4, x = 4:1)
mapply(rep, times = 1:4, MoreArgs = list(x = 42))
mapply(function(x, y) seq_len(x) + y,
c(a = 1, b = 2, c = 3), # names from first
c(A = 10, B = 0, C = -10))
word <- function(C, k) paste(rep.int(C, k), collapse = "")
## names from the first, too:
utils::str(L <- mapply(word, LETTERS[1:6], 6:1, SIMPLIFY = FALSE))
mapply(word, "A", integer()) # gave Error, now list()