[R] Is there an variant of apply() that does not return anything?

[Marc Schwartz]

On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Peng Yu wrote:

> There are a few version of apply() (e.g., lapply(), sapply()). I'm
> wondering if there is one that does not return anything but just
> silently apply a function to the list argument.
>
> For example, the plot function is applied to each element in 'alist'.
> It is redundant to return anything from apply.
>
> apply(alist,function(x){ plot each element of alist})



Just use a for() loop. If you are plotting things, the performance  
bottleneck is not going to be in the loop.

Sometimes, we get too anal about avoiding for() loops.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz