Category: R

By Matthias Templ (ZHAW), Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW) By way of example, functionality of Reduce() is shown in in https://blog.zhaw.ch/datascience/r-reduce-applys-lesser-known-brother/ . It’s great to learn about how to use this function on interesting problems. If you are ready (equals if you read the first blog post on Reduce), we want to push you further on writing […]

By Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW) Everybody who knows a bit about R knows that in general loops are said to be evil and should be avoided, both for efficiency reasons and code readability, although one could argue about both. The usual advice is to use vector operations and apply() and its relatives. sapply(), vapply() and lapply() […]