Lapply and Sapply

Lesson 11 of 16 • 2 upvotes • 9:05mins

Rohit Kumar Singh

In this lesson, you'll learn how to use lapply() and sapply(), the two most important members of R's *apply family of functions, also known as loop functions. These powerful functions, along with their close relatives (vapply() and tapply(), among others) offer a concise and convenient means of implementing the Split-Apply-Combine strategy for data analysis.Each of the *apply functions will SPLIT up some data into smaller pieces, APPLY a function to each piece, then COMBINE the results.