outer(X, Y, FUN="*", ...) x %o% y
X
| A vector or array. |
Y
| A vector or array. |
FUN
| a function to use on the outer products, it may be a quoted string. |
...
|
optional arguments to be passed to FUN .
|
X
and Y
is the
array A
with dimension c(dim(X), dim(Y))
where
element A[i, j, .., k, l, ..] = FUN(X[i, j, ..], Y[k, l,..], ..)
.FUN
must be a function (or the name of it) which expects at
least two arguments and which operates elementwise on arrays.
Where they exist, the [dim]names of X
and Y
will be
preserved.
%o%
is an .Alias
for outer
(where FUN
cannot be changed from "*"
).
matmult
for usual (inner) matrix vector
multiplication; kronecker
which is based on outer
.x <- 1:9; names(x) <- x # Multiplication & Power Tables x %o% x y <- 2:8; names(y) <- paste(y,":",sep="") outer(y, x, "^") outer(month.abb, 1999:2003, FUN = "paste") ## three way multiplication table: x %o% x %o% y[1:3]