Use vapply

Before you get your hands dirty with the third and last apply function that you'll learn about in this intermediate R course, let's take a look at its syntax. The function is called vapply(), and it has the following syntax:

vapply(X, FUN, FUN.VALUE, ..., USE.NAMES = TRUE)

Over the elements inside X, the function FUN is applied. The FUN.VALUE argument expects a template for the return argument of this function FUN. USE.NAMES is TRUE by default; in this case vapply() tries to generate a named array, if possible.

For the next set of exercises, you'll be working on the temp list again, that contains 7 numerical vectors of length 5. We also coded a function basics() that takes a vector, and returns a named vector of length 3, containing the minimum, mean and maximum value of the vector respectively.

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Apply the function basics() over the list of temperatures, temp, using vapply(). This time, you can use numeric(3) to specify the FUN.VALUE argument.

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Cobalah latihan ini dengan menyelesaikan kode contoh berikut.

# temp is already available in the workspace

# Definition of basics()
basics <- function(x) {
  c(min = min(x), mean = mean(x), max = max(x))
}

# Apply basics() over temp using vapply()

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