Yes, it is exactly 'apply', and its friends. E.g. you can collect the 
objects into a list and then do 

sapply(mylist, is.matrix)

G.

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:52:08AM -0400, Mon Mag wrote:
> I would like to apply a simple function, like
> is.matrix
> to more than one data.frame
> How can I call on more than one data.frame? (are there any wildcards, etc?)
> 
> I am a true beginner and have tried to look this up in help files, but
> cannot figure it out.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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