[R] forcing apply() to return data frame

[Federico Calboli]

Hi All,

I am (almost) successfully using apply() to apply a function recursively 
on a data matrix. The function is question is as.genotype() from the 
library 'genetics'

apply(subset(chr1, names$breed == 'lab'),2,as.genotype,sep ="")

Unfortuantely apply puts it's results into a matrix object rather than a 
data frame, tranforming my factors into numerics and making the results 
useless.

Is there a way of forcing apply() to return a data frame rather than a 
matrix?

Cheers,

Federico


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