I think you are asking for Reduce > Reduce(`+`, a) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 3 0 0 [2,] 0 3 0 [3,] 0 0 3 >
You might be asking for do.call with some function's name as its first argument.
> do.call("sum", a) [1] 9 > ______________________________________________ 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.