FYI below.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Luba G <lubaglouk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Rui!
> I was not aware that *number*L is an alternate to as.integer(*number*).
> Luba
>
> > identical(2,as.integer(2))
[1] FALSE
> identical(2L,as.integer(2))
[1] TRUE

Cheers,
Bert



> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > 2L is an integer, 2 might be or not. In the case of apply(), there is no
> > difference.
> >
> > All possible values for margin? Any possible(*) combination of the
> > dimensions of 'x' in
> >
> > apply(x, margin, function)
> >
> > (*) non-null. If, say, x <- array(0, dim=c(2,3,4)) (3dim) then you can
> > call any of
> >
> > apply(x, 1, fun) or apply(x, 2, fun) or apply(x, 3, fun) but not
> margin=4;
> > apply(x, 1:2, fun) or apply(x, c(1, 3), fun) or ...
> > apply(x, 1:3, fun)
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Rui Barradas
> >
> > Em 22-06-2012 23:23, Luba G escreveu:
> >
> >> What is the difference of using 2L versus 2 as the margin argument in
> the
> >> apply() function? Where can I find detailed information on all of the
> >> possible margin arguments?
> >>
> >>  x
> >>>
> >>      [,1] [,2]
> >> [1,]    1    2
> >> [2,]    3    4
> >> [3,]    5    6
> >> [4,]    7    8
> >> [5,]    9   10
> >>
> >>> sqrt(apply(x, *2L*, function(r.st) var(r.st[!is.na(r.st)])))
> >>>
> >> [1] 3.162278 3.162278
> >>
> >>> sqrt(apply(x,* 2*, function(r.st) var(r.st[!is.na(r.st)])))
> >>>
> >> [1] 3.162278 3.162278
> >>
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