I am sorry if this is documented in apply's dcumentation or completely obvious, I could not find or work it out.
Given an matricies Q: 2x3, R:1x3 and S:1x2 apply(Q, 1, '-', R) is 3x2 and apply(Q, 2, '-', S) is 2x3 Why? cheers Worik > Q [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 2 3 [2,] 10 11 12 > R [1] 1 4 7 > S [1] 1 4 > apply(Q, 1, '-', R) [,1] [,2] [1,] 0 9 [2,] -2 7 [3,] -4 5 > apply(Q, 2, '-', S) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 0 1 2 [2,] 6 7 8 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.