Performing different Operations on Two Arrays in R Programming - outer() Function

outer() function in R Language is used to apply a function to two arrays.

Syntax: outer(x, y, FUN=”*”, …)

Parameters:
x, y: arrays
FUN: function to use on the outer products, default value is multiply

Example 1:

# R program to illustrate 
# outer function 
  
# Initializing two arrays of elements 
x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) 
y<- c(2, 4, 6) 
  
# Multipling array x elements with array y elements 
# Here muliply (*) parameter is not used still this  
# function take it as default 
outer(x, y) 

Output:

     [, 1] [, 2] [, 3]
[1, ]    2    4    6
[2, ]    4    8   12
[3, ]    6   12   18
[4, ]    8   16   24
[5, ]   10   20   30

Example 2:

# R program to illustrate 
# outer function 
  
# Initializing two arrays of elements 
x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) 
y<- c(2, 4, 6) 
  
# Adding array x elements with array y elements 
outer(x, y, "+") 

Output:

     [, 1] [, 2] [, 3]
[1, ]    3    5    7
[2, ]    4    6    8
[3, ]    5    7    9
[4, ]    6    8   10
[5, ]    7    9   11

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