Reading the documentation for 'apply', I understand the following is
working exactly as documented:
> M<-matrix(1:6,ncol=2)
> M
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 4
[2,] 2 5
[3,] 3 6
> apply(M,2,function(column) column+c(1,2,3))
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 2 5
[2,] 4 7
[3,] 6 9
> apply(M,1,function(row) row+c(1,2))
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 2 3 4
[2,] 6 7 8
I'm not proposing any changes or extra arguments to 'apply'. Rather, I'm
wondering what is the benefit for (or rationale behind) this somewhat
unintuitive behavior in the case that MARGIN=1.
Thanks,
Ben
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