Hi, On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:52 AM, jschamel <jtscha...@alaska.edu> wrote: > > I'm trying to construct an array with output from the application of > homogeneous input to a bunch of different functions (my final goal is to > easily analyze running time of a lot of competing functions and summarize > the results). In my current iteration, however, only the first function in > the list is being applied, and I'm not sure why.
Because you only call the first element of the list, fl[[1]], that is the foo function. You might play around with a simple example in outer not involving functions to get a better feel for what it does. Here's my dummy code with > output > > >> foo <- function(x){paste('foo(',x,')',sep='')} >> bar <- function(x){paste('bar(',x,')',sep='')} >> outer(list(foo,bar),1:2,function(fl,x){fl[[1]](x)}) > [,1] [,2] > [1,] "foo(1)" "foo(2)" > [2,] "foo(1)" "foo(2)" > > > Any insight would be appreciated! Thanks! For your overall goal, here is how I would call a bunch of functions with the same arguments: lapply(list(foo, bar), do.call, list(1:2)) Cheers > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-applying-outer-to-a-list-of-functions-tp2998406p2998406.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.