12.7 Resources
This section provides pointers to resources on iteration, loops, and functional programming.
12.7.1 Resources on iteration
See Chapter 21: Iteration of r4ds (Wickham & Grolemund, 2017) and its exercises.
For loops in general, see the contributed cheatsheets on Base R and Advanced R.
12.7.2 Resources on functional programming
- For references on functional programming (FP) with purrr (Henry & Wickham, 2020), see https://purrr.tidyverse.org and the purrr cheatsheet:
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Figure 12.8: Apply functions with purrr summary from RStudio cheatsheets.
- The two editions of Advanced R (Wickham, 2014a, 2019a) contain several chapters on functions and functional programming.
12.7.3 Related resources
The Learning Machines blog (by Holger K. von Jouanne-Diedrich) provides many excellent posts on basic programming concepts. Examples related to this chapter include:
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References
Henry, L., & Wickham, H. (2020). purrr: Functional programming tools. Retrieved from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=purrr
Wickham, H. (2014a). Advanced R (1st ed.). Retrieved from http://adv-r.had.co.nz/
Wickham, H. (2019a). Advanced R (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://adv-r.hadley.nz/
Wickham, H., & Grolemund, G. (2017). R for data science: Import, tidy, transform, visualize, and model data. Retrieved from http://r4ds.had.co.nz