Hi, How can a function in R handle different types of input? I have written a function, which should calculate the slope from several 3-time-point measurements by linear regression
4 three-time-point-measurements: x<-cbind(c(1,2,3,4),c(2,3,4,5),c(3,4,5,6)) time points: time<-c(1,3,9) function for calculating the slope by linear regression: fit<-function(xx,t){slope <- coefficients(lm(log(xx) ~ 0 + t))[1] return(slope) } alpha<-fit(x[1,],time) At the moment the function output 'alpha' is calculated for x(x1=1,x2=2,x3=3). I would like to get 'alphas' for all four rows of x without using a for-loop. If I use 'mapply', I get outputs to very entry of x (12 outputs) instead of four. Thank you very much in advance! Yor help is really appreciated! Stella -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-can-a-function-in-R-handle-different-types-of-input-tp4603263.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.