r_ply {plyr}

Replicate expression and discard results.

Description

Evalulate expression n times then discard results

Usage

r_ply(.n, .expr, .progress = "none", .print = FALSE)

Arguments

.n

number of times to evaluate the expression

.expr

expression to evaluate

.progress

name of the progress bar to use, see create_progress_bar

.print

automatically print each result? (default: FALSE)

Details

This function runs an expression multiple times, discarding the results. This function is equivalent to replicate, but never returns anything

References

Hadley Wickham (2011). The Split-Apply-Combine Strategy for Data Analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 40(1), 1-29. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i01/.

Examples

r_ply(10, plot(runif(50)))
r_ply(25, hist(runif(1000)))