laply is a function in Hadley's "plyr" package. The convention is that the first letter refers to the input class and the second letter refers to the output class so laply takes a list and returns an array.Aug 10, 2011
What package is Sapply in?
sapply(x, f, simplify=FALSE, USE. NAMES=FALSE) is the same as lapply(x, f) . NOTE: This man page is for the lapply and sapply S4 generic functions defined in the BiocGenerics package.
What is Lapply and Sapply?
lapply returns a list of the same length as X , each element of which is the result of applying FUN to the corresponding element of X . sapply is a user-friendly version and wrapper of lapply by default returning a vector, matrix or, if simplify = "array" , an array if appropriate, by applying simplify2array() .
What is Lapply?
Description. lapply returns a list of the same length as X , each element of which is the result of applying FUN to the corresponding element of X .
Is Sapply a for loop?
What is sapply in R? The sapply function in R is a vectorized function of the apply family that allows you to iterate over a list or vector without the need of using the for loop, that is known to be slow in R.