ase/lapply.html" class="external-link">lapply()</a></code> or <code>map()</code> functions. Driven by speed with 10k-100k rows, typical biological datasets.</p>
<p>Compared to convenient alternatives, <code><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/apply.html" class="external-link">apply()</a></code> or tidyverse, typically order of magnitude faster. (Ymmv.) Notable exceptions: <code>data.table</code> and Bioconductor <code>S4Vectors</code>. Both are amazing, and are fairly heavy installations. <code>S4Vectors</code>