Here's an attempt using Map
, essentially stolen from a previous answer here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15059327/496803
res <- Map(prop.test,dat$X,dat$N)
dat[c("lower","upper")] <- t(sapply(res,"[[","conf.int"))
# X N Prop lower upper
#1 1 10 0.1000000 0.005242302 0.4588460
#2 2 50 0.0400000 0.006958623 0.1485882
#3 3 20 0.1500000 0.039566272 0.3886251
#4 4 30 0.1333333 0.043597084 0.3164238
#5 5 35 0.1428571 0.053814457 0.3104216