arrApply (Q81899)

High performance variant of apply() for a fixed set of functions. Considerable speedup of this implementation is a trade-off for universality: user defined functions cannot be used with this package. However, about 20 most currently employed functions are available for usage. They can be divided in three types: reducing functions (like mean(), sum() etc., giving a scalar when applied to a vector), mapping function (like normalise(), cumsum() etc., giving a vector of the same length as the input vector) and finally, vector reducing function (like diff() which produces result vector of a length different from the length of input vector). Optional or mandatory additional arguments required by some functions (e.g. norm type for norm()) can be passed as named arguments in '...'.