Why do you equate using <<- with returning multiple items from a loop? There
are valid reasons to use <<-, but the people who want to use it practically
never have them.
Just return a list of the items you want to return from within the function.
squares <- mclapply(1:10, function(x){result <- list(); result$x <- x;
result$x2 <- x^2; result})
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Dario Strbenac <d.strbe...@garvan.org.au> wrote:
>I sometimes need to return multiple items from a loop. Is it possible
>to have the <<- operator work the same for mclapply as for lapply ?
>
>> extra <- list()
>
>> squares <- mclapply(1:10, function(x){extra[[x]] <<- x; x^2;})
>> extra
>list()
>
>> squares <- lapply(1:10, function(x){extra[[x]] <<- x; x^2;})
>> extra
>[[1]]
>[1] 1
>
>[[2]]
>[1] 2
>
>[[3]]
>[1] 3
>
>[[4]]
>[1] 4
>
>[[5]]
>[1] 5
>
>[[6]]
>[1] 6
>
>[[7]]
>[1] 7
>
>[[8]]
>[1] 8
>
>[[9]]
>[1] 9
>
>[[10]]
>[1] 10
>
>My question is like that of
>http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/help/09/03/8329.html which is not
>answered.
>
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>Australia
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