Functional Programming in R Advanced Statistical Programming for Data Science, Analysis and Finance /

• Main Author: Mailund, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2017.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer programming.; Software engineering.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computer Science.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Programming Techniques.; Software Engineering.

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 P...

Table of Contents:

• 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.