Dear list and Hadley, The new plyr package seems to provide a clean and consistent way to apply a function on several arguments. However, I don't understand why the following example does not work like the standard mapply,
library(plyr) df <- data.frame(a=1:10 , b=1:10) foo1 <- function(a, b, cc=0, d=0){ a + b + cc + d } mdply(df, foo1, cc=1) # fine mdply(df, foo1, d=1) # fails mdply(df, foo1, cc=1, d=2) # fails mapply(foo1, a=df$a, b=df$b, MoreArgs=list(cc=1)) mapply(foo1, a=df$a, b=df$b, MoreArgs=list(d=1)) mapply(foo1, a=df$a, b=df$b, MoreArgs=list(cc=1, d=2)) Best regards, baptiste ______________________________________________ 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.