The function I am giving for context is cbind. Are you asking how I would like to apply the answer to my question?
I am trying to take the results of a Fluidigm SNP microarray, organized by assay into a list (each component is the results of one assay), find coordinate midpoints ([1,] and [2,] of my XX, XY, and YY clusters (these are genotypes) and is represented by l1. l2 is the midpoint between XX/XY and XY/YY although I did not give this in my example for simplicity, and I am now trying to find the midpoint between these new midpoints and their closest genotype clusters. This is represented as cbind((l1[[1]][,1]+l2[[1]][,1])/2, (l1[[1]][,2]+l2[[1]][,1])/2, (l1[[1]][,2]+l2[[1]][,2])/2, (l1[[1]][,3]+l2[[1]][,2])/2) but only works for one assay in the list of 96. I want to apply this to the entire list. My entire code so far is: ## OPEN .CSV and ORGANIZE BY ASSAY file="" { rawdata <- read.csv(file, skip = 15) OrgAssay <- split(rawdata, rawdata$Assay) ## RETURN MIDPOINTS FOR EACH CLUSTER WITHOUT NO CALLS #for loop ClustMidPts <-list() for(locus in 1:length(names(OrgAssay))){ ClustMidPts[[locus]]<-t(cbind(tapply(OrgAssay[[locus]][,"Allele.X.1"], OrgAssay[[locus]][,"Final"], mean,na.rm=T), tapply(OrgAssay[[locus]][,"Allele.Y.1"], OrgAssay[[locus]][,"Final"], mean,na.rm=T)))} names(ClustMidPts)=names(OrgAssay) ## CREATE CLUSTER-CLUSTER MIDPOINT #for loop ClustClustMidPts <- list() for(locus in 1:length(names(ClustMidPts))){ ClustClustMidPts[[locus]] <- cbind(XXYX=(ClustMidPts[[locus]][,"XX"]+ClustMidPts[[locus]][,"YX"])/2, YXYY=(ClustMidPts[[locus]][,"YX"]+ClustMidPts[[locus]][,"YY"])/2) } names(ClustClustMidPts)=names(ClustMidPts) Please also let me know how I messed up the formatting because it shows up fine in gmail even when I post on Nabble. How did I assume you were using Nabble? Is this topic included in the posting guide? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/applying-cbind-or-any-function-across-all-components-in-a-list-tp4631128p4631260.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.