[R] Applying a function to an array

Tsjerk Wassenaar tsjerkw at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 15:54:53 CEST 2007


Hi,

Alternatively:

apply( a, c(1,2), sd )

Cheers,

Tsjerk

On 8/24/07, Florent Bresson <f_bresson at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Dear R-users,
>
> I would like to apply a function (more precisely sd()) over the third dimension of a three-dimension array. The function apply would be interesting but the chosen function can only be applied on the rows and columns of the array according to the help file. I can use a loop to cut the array in matrices and then use apply for each replication, but it's not very nice. A small example:
>
> a    <-    array(runif(1200),c(3,4,100))
> b    <-    matrix(NA,3,4)
> for(j in 1:3){ b[j,]    <-    apply(a[j,,],1,sd) }
>
> Is there someting better than the use of a loop ?
>
> Thanks
>
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