<bhs2 <at> mevik.net> writes:
:
: Dear all,
:
: apply(X, MARGIN, FUN, ...) returns an array of dimension
: c(n, dim(X)[MARGIN]) when FUN returns a vector of length n > 1.
:
: Matrices and arrays are also vectors, so if FUN returns a matrix or an
: array, apply returns an array of dimension c(n, dim(X)[MARGIN]) as
: above. This is in accordance with the description of apply in the
: Blue Book, and also how Splus works (at least v6.0).
:
: I am curious: why was it decided not to return an array of dimension
: c(dim(result.of.FUN), dim(X)[MARGIN]) when FUN returns a matrix or an
: array?
:
: (This is not meant as criticism. I am sure there is a good reason; I
: just cannot see it.)
:
This does not answer your question but note that you can return the
result as a list. In the following apply is used to turn each column
of x into a 2x3 matrix returning the list of four such matrices:
R> x <- matrix(1:24,6)
R> apply(x, 2, function(x)list(matrix(x,2)))
[[1]]
[[1]][[1]]
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 3 5
[2,] 2 4 6
[[2]]
[[2]][[1]]
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 7 9 11
[2,] 8 10 12
[[3]]
[[3]][[1]]
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 13 15 17
[2,] 14 16 18
[[4]]
[[4]][[1]]
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 19 21 23
[2,] 20 22 24
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