You simply use the apply()
function:
R> M <- matrix(1:6, nrow=3, byrow=TRUE)
R> M
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 2
[2,] 3 4
[3,] 5 6
R> apply(M, 1, function(x) 2*x[1]+x[2])
[1] 4 10 16
R>
This takes a matrix and applies a (silly) function to each row. You pass extra arguments to the function as fourth, fifth, … arguments to apply()
.