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2008 Oct 29
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Propagate vector attributes to data frame
...nsformation value (myAttr) for x, transforms x according to myAttr and then sets myAttr as an attribute of x before returning x, so I can easily know what myAttr was used (basically it's a power transformation and myAttr is the lambda). myFunction.numeric <- function(x, ...) { myAttr <- calcMyAttr(x, ...) x <- myTransform(x, myAttr, ...) attr(x, "myAttr") <- myAttr return(x) } To apply it over several columns of a data.frame, I have the following function: myFunction.data.frame <- function(df, ...) { df <- apply(df, 2, myFunction , ...) } myDataFrame[cols] <-...