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R has a lot of under-appreciated super powerful functions. I list a few of our favorites below.
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stats::approx(): approximate a curve/function.base::cumsum(): cumulative ordered sum.stats::ecdf(): estimate the cumulative distribution function.base::findInterval(): assign values to bins.base::match(): bulk computation of first match. Can lookup and sort data and even find non-duplicate data.base::Reduce(): nifty functional method to combine multiple function evaluations.base::tapply(): grouped summary function.base::unlist(): build arrays of atomic values from more complicated nested structures.base::Vectorize(): Convert scalar functions into functions ready to operate on arrays.
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