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It could be A LOT more clear. The first sentence is, of course, obvious to everyone and probably already known by people searching for help on sapply.

If you have a family of functions that "sort-of" do similar things, the most critical thing to communicate is some clear sense of when to use one or another of the functions. This doc degenerates into unhelpful jibberish instead.

Perhaps a close reading of it would have helped the OP, but there is a unnecessarily high cost in frustration.




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