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How to use big_apply properly

Open minhnd212 opened this issue 11 months ago • 4 comments

Hi, I wish to use the big_apply() function in the same manner as apply(). I went through the function's documentation and noticed that big_apply() applies to an a.FUN that calls another function that can perform calculations on a GROUP of columns, such as colSums(), rowSums(), etc., and which group of columns to be calculated are based on the ind argument.

However, my a.FUN calls another function that can perform calculations on ONE column at a time only (instead of a group of columns). I can program the function so that it can perform calculations on a group of columns by using a for loop, but then it defeats the purpose of using big_apply() or apply(), which is to avoid using the for loop, if I understand correctly.

Could you give me a suggestion on how I can go about solving this problem? Thank you.

minhnd212 avatar Mar 11 '24 16:03 minhnd212