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plyr (version 1.5.2)

r_ply: Replicate expression and discard results.

Description

Replicate expression and discard results. Evalulate expression n times then discard results

Usage

r_ply(.n, .expr, .progress="none", .print=FALSE)

Arguments

.n
number of times to evaluate the expression
.expr
expression to evaluate
.progress
name of the progress bar to use, see create_progress_bar
.print
automatically print each result? (default: FALSE)

Details

This function runs an expression multiple times, discarding the results. This function is equivalent to replicate, but never returns anything

References

Hadley Wickham (2011). The Split-Apply-Combine Strategy for Data Analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 40(1), 1-29. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i01/.

Examples

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r_ply(10, plot(runif(50)))
r_ply(25, hist(runif(1000)))

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