[r] passing several arguments to FUN of lapply (and others *apply)

myfun <- function(x, arg1) {
 # doing something here with x and arg1
}

x is a vector or a list and myfun in lapply(x, myfun) is called for each element of x separately.

Option 1

If you'd like to use whole arg1 in each myfun call (myfun(x[1], arg1), myfun(x[2], arg1) etc.), use lapply(x, myfun, arg1) (as stated above).

Option 2

If you'd however like to call myfun to each element of arg1 separately alongside elements of x (myfun(x[1], arg1[1]), myfun(x[2], arg1[2]) etc.), it's not possible to use lapply. Instead, use mapply(myfun, x, arg1) (as stated above) or apply:

 apply(cbind(x,arg1), 1, myfun)

or

 apply(rbind(x,arg1), 2, myfun).