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plyr (version 1.6)

a_ply: Split array, apply function, and discard results.

Description

For each slice of an array, apply function and discard results

Usage

a_ply(.data, .margins, .fun = NULL, ..., .expand = TRUE,
  .progress = "none", .print = FALSE)

Arguments

.data
matrix, array or data frame to be processed
.margins
a vector giving the subscripts to split up data by. 1 splits up by rows, 2 by columns and c(1,2) by rows and columns, and so on for higher dimensions
.fun
function to apply to each piece
...
other arguments passed on to .fun
.expand
if .data is a data frame, should output be 1d (expand = FALSE), with an element for each row; or nd (expand = TRUE), with a dimension for each variable.
.progress
name of the progress bar to use, see create_progress_bar
.print
automatically print each result? (default: FALSE)

Details

All plyr functions use the same split-apply-combine strategy: they split the input into simpler pieces, apply .fun to each piece, and then combine the pieces into a single data structure. This function splits matrices, arrays and data frames by dimensions and discards the output. This is useful for functions that you are calling purely for their side effects like display plots and saving output.

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/.