The R package wrapr now has a neat new feature: “wrapr_applicable”. This feature allows objects to declare a surrogate function to stand in for the object in wrapr pipelines. It is a powerful technique and allowed us to quickly implement a convenient new ad hoc query mode for rquery. A […]
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For more and more clients we have been using a nice coding pattern taught to us by Garrett Grolemund in his book Hands-On Programming with R: make a function that returns a list of functions. This turns out to be a classic functional programming techique: use closures to implement objects […]
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Hello World: An Instance Of Rhetoric in Computer Science John Mount: jmount@mzlabs.com February 19, 2008 Computer scientists have usually dodged questions of intent, purpose or meaning. While there are theories that assign deep mathematical meaning to computer programs[13] we computer scientists usually avoid discussion of meaning and talk more about […]
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