Sum a number to each element of an array

I would like to sum 5 to each element of an array (not through all dimensions) without using a loop for. As the result, I want to get an array with the exact same dimensions, but each element should have 5 added to it. I tried using the sum and the apply functions, but I either get the sum of each of the elements (one number), or this error message:

Error in apply(b[, , , 2], 5, FUN = sum, na.rm = T) : 
  'MARGIN' does not match dim(X)

I need to have na.rm = T, because there are a lot of NA in my dataset, so I want to get NA + 5 = 5

Here is an example where I'm trying to sum 5 to all dimensions but to [,,,1] :

b <- array(seq(1,48,1), dim = c(4,2,3,2))
b[4,2,3,2] <- NA

I tried:

sum(b[,,,2], 5, na.rm = T)

I was expecting to get as an answer:

(a <- array(c(seq(1,24,1),seq(25,47,1)+5, 5), dim = c(4,2,3,2)))

R by default supports adding to matricies and arrays. You can just use the + operator to add a value to each element of a vector/matrix/array. Since you only want to affect parts of that array, just use square brackets to subset the parts you want to affect:

b[,,,2] <- b[,,,2] + 5
table(b==a, useNA='always')
TRUE <NA> 
  47    1 

You have NA values in your array. In R, by default, operations involving an NA return NA. So in this case, the NA values in b will remain NA after the addition.

If you want different behavior, for example if you want NA + 5 = 5, then you need to convert the NA values to 0 in the parts of the array you care about before doing the addition

To replace all NAs with 0:

b[is.na(b)] <- 0

To only do that in b[,,,2]:

b[,,,2][is.na(b[,,,2])] <- 0

We can do

replace(b, is.na(b), 0) + 5
# , , 1, 1
# 
#      [,1] [,2]
# [1,]    6   10
# [2,]    7   11
# [3,]    8   12
# [4,]    9   13
# 
# , , 2, 1
# 
#      [,1] [,2]
# [1,]   14   18
# [2,]   15   19
# [3,]   16   20
# [4,]   17   21
# 
# , , 3, 1
# 
#      [,1] [,2]
# [1,]   22   26
# [2,]   23   27
# [3,]   24   28
# [4,]   25   29
# 
# , , 1, 2
# 
#      [,1] [,2]
# [1,]   30   34
# [2,]   31   35
# [3,]   32   36
# [4,]   33   37
# 
# , , 2, 2
# 
#      [,1] [,2]
# [1,]   38   42
# [2,]   39   43
# [3,]   40   44
# [4,]   41   45
# 
# , , 3, 2
# 
#      [,1] [,2]
# [1,]   46   50
# [2,]   47   51
# [3,]   48   52
# [4,]   49    5

Disclaimer: This answer refers to "I would like to sum 5 to each element of an array" where NA should be considered a 0.