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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254856803321

Autore

Mailund Thomas

Titolo

Functional programming in R : advanced statistical programming for data science, analysis and finance / / by Thomas Mailund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : Apress : , : Imprint : Apress, , 2017

ISBN

9781484227466

1484227468

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 104 p. 7 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

005.13

Soggetti

Programming languages (Electronic computers)

Computer programming

Software engineering

R (Computer program language)

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

Programming Techniques

Software Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Functions in R -- 2. Pure Functional Programming -- 3. Scope and Closures -- 4. Higher-order Functions -- 5. Filer, Map, and Reduce -- 6. Point-free Programming -- Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

Master functions and discover how to write functional programs in R. In this book, you'll make your functions pure by avoiding side-effects; you’ll write functions that manipulate other functions, and you’ll construct complex functions using simpler functions as building blocks. In Functional Programming in R, you’ll see how we can replace loops, which can have side-effects, with recursive functions that can more easily avoid them. In addition, the book covers why you shouldn't use recursion when loops are more efficient and how you can get the best of both worlds. Functional programming is a style of programming, like object-oriented programming, but one that focuses on data transformations and calculations rather than objects and state. Where in object-oriented programming you model your programs by describing which states an object can be in and how methods will



reveal or modify that state, in functional programming you model programs by describing how functions translate input data to output data. Functions themselves are considered to be data you can manipulate and much of the strength of functional programming comes from manipulating functions; that is, building more complex functions by combining simpler functions. You will: Write functions in R including infix operators and replacement functions Create higher order functions Pass functions to other functions and start using functions as data you can manipulate Use Filer, Map and Reduce functions to express the intent behind code clearly and safely Build new functions from existing functions without necessarily writing any new functions, using point-free programming Create functions that carry data along with them.