functools: functools: Extending Functional Programming in R

In functools: Functional Programming in R

Description

functools extends functional programming in R. It has three main goals:

Details

• Add support to the usual higher order functional suspects (Map, Reduce, Filter, etc.) without extending any core R objects.

• Use a consistent API to access different functionals in base R such as 'lapply' or 'apply'.

• Provide blazing fast performance for in-memory data by writing key pieces in C++ and options for parallelization, where possible.

functools achieves these goals through three main types of function design patterns:

• Closures (functions that take data and return functions)

• Functionals (functions that take functions and return data)

• Function Operators (functions that take functions and return functions)

To learn more about functools, start with the vignettes: browseVignettes(package = "functools")

functools documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:39 a.m.