Loop Functions-mapply-notes from R programming coursera

mapply is a multivariate apply of sourts which applies a function in parallel over a set of arguments.

>str(mapply)
function (FUN, ..., MoreArgs = NULL, SIMPLIFY = TRUE, USE.NAMES = TRUE)  

• FUN is a function to apply
• …contains arguments to apply over
• MoreArgs is a list of other arguments to FUN
• SIMPLIFY indicates whether the result should be simplified.
  The following is tedious to type.
  list(rep(1, 4), rep(2, 3), rep(3, 2), rep(4, 1)
  Instead we can do

> mapply(rep, 1:4, 4:1)
[[1]]
[1] 1 1 1 1

[[2]]
[1] 2 2 2

[[3]]
[1] 3 3

[[4]]
[1] 4

> noise <- function(n, mean, sd) {  ##创建一个函数，生成正太随机噪音，参数：观察数，平均值，标准差
+     rnorm(n, mean, sd)
+ }
> noise(5, 1, 2)
[1]  1.4930764  5.6224667  2.8635381  4.2597490 -0.1609573
> noise(1:5, 1:5, 2)
[1] 1.352830 1.310125 2.618079 1.517609 6.841648