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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by curiousgal on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @06:43PM (#17307631)
>split/lapply/aggregate/ave

I always feel bad when I resort to a for loop in R. Do you have any recommended ressources about mastering those specific manipulations?

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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by crispyambulance on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:59PM (#17308406)
Really, it's not always worth the trouble.

Sometimes a loop is vastly more performant if you count the amount of time it takes to get the "idiomatic" way working and working in a way that allows easy troubleshooting.

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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by ekianjo on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:12PM (#17308168)
Unless you do something quitec complex dplyr is faster for such operations and consumes less RAM too.
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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by buchmayne on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:38PM (#17308591)
https://github.com/jennybc/row-oriented-workflows

getting comfortable with purrr has been enormously helpful in consolidating my code and avoiding unnecessary loops

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