Iterations of a multivariable function

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How do you define iterations of multivariable functions?

To be clear(example):

If $f: \mathbb R^2 \to \mathbb R$

How do you define

$f \circ f$, or $f \circ \cdots \circ f$?

I admit that this question sounds very odd, but I think I need to define or learn of this. (Why? I want to generalize this(Carleman matrix) to multivariable functions to solve this(Multivariable carleman matrix) or this(same but different sites) question!)

And I think this concept may be quite reasonable because there is a something like multiplication of matrices that have different dimensions.

My assumtion is that $f \circ f \cdots \circ f : \text{also } \mathbb R^2 \to \mathbb R$.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

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The composition is undefined as $$f \circ f=\mathbb{R}^2\xrightarrow{f}\mathbb{R}\xrightarrow{?}\underline{?}.$$ However if you have a function $\mathbb{R}^2\xrightarrow{F}\mathbb{R}^2,$ then we can easily form the composition.