[R] Fortune?

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Fri Jun 25 17:39:29 CEST 2010


On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:
> "On average, any data manipulation that can be described in a sentence or
> two of English can be programmed in one line in R. If you find yourself
> writing a long 'for' loop to do something that sounds simple, take a step
> back and research if an existing combination of functions can easily handle
> your request."
>
I've already fallen in this trap. A couple hours of reading Rnews on
the apply() family would have saved me a month or so of for()
programming.
Liviu



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