Re: [R] Use of paste with apply()

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Kjetil Brinchmann halvorsen wrote: examples snipped Why doesn't paste behave in apply as sum? Because sum maps a vector of inputs to a single output, but paste does not, unless you use collapse= -thomas __

[R] Use of paste with apply()

I was surprised by: test - matrix( as.character(1:4), 2) test [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 3 [2,] 2 4 apply(test, 1, paste, sep=+) [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,] 3 4 apply(test, 1, paste, sep=*) [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,] 3 4 te - matrix(1:4, 2) te [,1] [,2] [1,]13

Re: [R] Use of paste with apply()

halvorsen Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 5:34 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Use of paste with apply() I was surprised by: test - matrix( as.character(1:4), 2) test [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 3 [2,] 2 4 apply(test, 1, paste, sep=+) [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,] 3 4