Adding an mapply-like blockApply() function to the API

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#11 opened on Mar 12, 2018 2 comments 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

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Hi Hervé,

In a recent email you wrote:

At some point the old block-processing functions (i.e. block_APPLY(), block_MAPPLY(), and
block_APPLY_and_COMBINE()) will go away.

I'd like to request that a mapply-like blockApply() function is part of the exported API. In minfi, we need to iterate over multiple (conformable) array-like objects in parallel for several of the preprocessing routines (e.g., converting the red & green channels from the array to methylated/unmethylated calls).

The return value is a large matrix-like object, so it'd be great if this mapply-like blockApply() also supported the sink or BACKEND argument (as in https://github.com/Bioconductor/DelayedArray/issues/10)

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