Re: Applying vector functions to dataframes

[Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Tony Plate wrote:

> Thomas Jagger wrote:
> > Good morning. 
> > [snip]
> > However, lapply uses for loops, so you might as well use the for loops
> > explicitly (or try R).
> Actually, while that is true in R, I believe it is not true in S-PLUS: in 
> S-PLUS lapply() calls the compiled function "S_qapply".
`Actually', in R it calls the compiled function "lapply", and has done so 
for a few years.
--
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595