I not uncommonly have the following paradym
fits <- lapply(argument, function)
resulting in a list of function results. Often, the outer call is to
mclapply, and the
function encodes some long calculation, e.g. multiple chains in an MCMC.
Assume for illustration that each function returns a list with elements beta,
loglik, iter.
Then sapply(fits, function(x) x$iter)
will give me a vector, with the number of iterations used by each instance.
I've often been suspicious that there is some simple shorthand for the "grab
all the
elements named iter" that skips the explicit x$iter function. Am I indeed
overlooking
something? I don't expect a speed increase, just cleaner code.
Terry T.
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Terry M Therneau, PhD
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Mayo Clinic
thern...@mayo.edu
"TERR-ree THUR-noh"
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