BiocGenerics (version 0.18.0)

mapply: Apply a function to multiple list-like or vector-like arguments

Description

mapply is a multivariate version of sapply. mapply applies FUN to the first elements of each ... argument, the second elements, the third elements, and so on. Arguments are recycled if necessary.

NOTE: This man page is for the mapply S4 generic function defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?base::mapply for the default method (defined in the base package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects (typically list-like or vector-like) not supported by the default methods.

Usage

mapply(FUN, ..., MoreArgs=NULL, SIMPLIFY=TRUE, USE.NAMES=TRUE)

Arguments

FUN, MoreArgs, SIMPLIFY, USE.NAMES

See ?base::mapply for a description of these arguments.

...

One or more list-like or vector-like objects of strictly positive length, or all of zero length.

Value

See ?base::mapply for the value returned by the default method.Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages should behave as consistently as possible with the default method.

See Also

• base::mapply for the default mapply method.

• showMethods for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function.

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.

Examples

mapply  # note the dispatch on the '...' arg only
showMethods("mapply")
selectMethod("mapply", "ANY")  # the default method