r - Apply list of functions to list of values -

in reference this question, trying figure out simplest way apply list of functions list of values. basically, nested lapply. example, here apply sd , mean built in data set trees:

funs <- list(sd=sd, mean=mean) sapply(funs, function(x) sapply(trees, x)) 

to get:

              sd     mean girth   3.138139 13.24839 height  6.371813 76.00000 volume 16.437846 30.17097 

but hoping avoid inner function , have like:

sapply(funs, sapply, x=trees) 

which doesn't work because x matches first sapply instead of second. can functional::curry:

sapply(funs, curry(sapply, x=trees)) 

but hoping maybe there clever way positional , name matching i'm missing.

since mapply use ellipsis ... pass vectors (atomics or lists) , not named argument (x) in sapply, lapply, etc ... don't need name parameter x = trees if use mapply instead of sapply :

funs <- list(sd = sd, mean = mean)  x <- sapply(funs, function(x) sapply(trees, x))  y <- sapply(funs, mapply, trees)  > y               sd     mean girth   3.138139 13.24839 height  6.371813 76.00000 volume 16.437846 30.17097 > identical(x, y) [1] true 

you 1 letter close looking ! :)

note used list funsbecause can't create dataframe of functions, got error.

> r.version.string [1] "r version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09)"