"Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did not realize that ++ was available. Is there a comprehensive list > somewhere of which operators are available for definition? I searched > the R Language manual for ++ but that only came up with a reference to C++ .
It doesn't work infix. R allows arbitrary non-empty strings as object names, with some syntax complications, but all I needed was a name that could be passed to do.call.... > On 17 Nov 2006 11:38:43 +0100, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > You could stack your list in an array and then use apply : > > > > > > myArray <- array( unlist(lapply(1:3, f) ) , dim =c(2, 3, 3)) > > > apply(myArray, c(1,2), sum) > > > > Or fixup "+" to take more than two arguments, e.g. > > > > "++" <- function(x, ...) if (nargs() == 1) x else x + Recall(...) > > > > f <- function(i){matrix((1:6)^i, 2, 3)} > > do.call("++", sapply(1:4, f, simplify=FALSE)) > > > > ## > > > > > "++" <- function(x, ...) if (nargs() == 1) x else x + Recall(...) > > > f <- function(i){matrix((1:6)^i, 2, 3)} > > > do.call("++", sapply(1:4, f, simplify=FALSE)) > > [,1] [,2] [,3] > > [1,] 4 120 780 > > [2,] 30 340 1554 > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Romain > > > > > > Quoting Robin Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > How do I make do.call() take "+" as a function for a list of more > > > > than two elements? > > > > > > > > Toy problem follows: > > > > > > > > > > > > f <- function(i){matrix((1:6)^i,2,3)} > > > > > > > > # Thus f() returns a matrix of size 2x3; I want to add a whole bunch > > > > of such matrices, > > > > # as in f(1) + f(2) + f(3) + f(4) > > > > > > > > # But: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > do.call("+",sapply(1:4,f,simplify=FALSE)) > > > > Error in do.call("+", sapply(1:4, f, simplify = FALSE)) : > > > > operator needs one or two arguments > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Also, > > > > > > > > > > > > > do.call(sum,sapply(1:4,f,simplify=FALSE)) > > > > [1] 2828 > > > > > > > > > > > > doesn't do what I want (I would like a 2x3 matrix whose elements are the > > > > sum of corresponding elements in my list) > > > > > > > > How to do this nicely? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Robin Hankin > > > > Uncertainty Analyst > > > > National Oceanography Centre, Southampton > > > > European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK > > > > tel 023-8059-7743 > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > -- > > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 > > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.