[R] How to apply a function to slices of multidimensional arrays, and not just iterating through single elements

[Todor Kondic]

Dimitris, Domenico,

It seems I was using apply in a wrong way.

Thank you!

TK

2009/3/6 Domenico Vistocco <vistocco at unicas.it>:
> If I well understand, maybe you have still apply at your disposal:
>
> arrayA <- 1:60
> dim(arrayA) <- c(3,4,5)
> apply(arrayA, 2, sum)
>
> You have the same result of:
> res<-numeric(4);for (i in 1:4) res[i]<-sum(arrayA[,i,])
>
> Ciao,
> domenico
>
> PS:
> have a look at plyr package for more "slicing" and "applying" functions
>
> Todor Kondic wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If I want to apply some f(x) to such chunks of the the array
>> dim(A)==c(d1,d2,d3,..,dk,...,dn) which are defined by A[...,ik,...]
>> (ik belongs to {1,..,dk}), for now I use iteration via 'for (i in
>> dim(A)[k]) f(A[...,k,...])' . Is there any more elegant approach, e.g
>> like in 'apply' function which you can use on margin of the array.
>> Just in my case I want the entire slice defined by margin to be an
>> argument to my f(x), not just element-by-element.
>>
>> If the former is too confusing:
>> A - array
>> dim(A)=c(3,4,5)
>> f(x) - function; x is argument dim(x)=c(3,5)
>> A has 4 slices of dim c(3,5)
>> I want my result to be a vector c( f(A[,1,]), f(A[,2,]), f(A[,3,]),
>> f(A[,4,]) )
>> Until now I was doing 'for (i in 1:4) res[i]<-f(A[,i,])' . Is there a
>> more efficient way of doing this, maybe some predefined function?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> TK
>>
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