R Apply() function on specific dataframe columns

Question

I want to use the apply function on a dataframe, but only apply the function to the last 5 columns.

B<- by(wifi,(wifi$Room),FUN=function(y){apply(y, 2, A)         


        

Answer 1

I think what you want is mapply. You could apply the function to all columns, and then just drop the columns you don't want. However, if you are applying different functions to different columns, it seems likely what you want is mutate, from the dplyr package.