I think the hard part for me is shifting from using functional programming tools to actually thinking functionally. I’ll try in future posts to share small, concrete examples of where I get stuck. Thanks.
Le ven. 13 févr. 2026 à 17:17, Bert Gunter <[email protected]> a écrit : > Saad, > > To add a bit to the previous excellent advice,... > > I think your query may be too vague to elicit helpful responses. A better > strategy might be to give a few **simple** examples of the sorts of > problems that demonstrate your concerns and your code for how you > approached them and reasons why you think these approaches need > improvement. To maximize your chance of useful responses, keep your code > snippets **short** (less than a dozen lines, say). For must of us, our eyes > glaze over when confronted with pages of code that we are supposed to > analyze and diagnose. > > Cheers, > Bert > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 3:57 AM Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 at 18:00, SAAD LAMJADLI <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Dear R Users, >> > >> > I am looking for a roadmap to learn advanced functional programming in >> R. >> >> Which part of functional programming in R do you find hard to understand? >> Thomas Mailund's book has a lot of focus on R4 but functional >> programming is so much more. >> >> Have you looked at the purrr-packages and the family of apply-functions ? >> If you want to make your own packages I suggest you read about vctrs: >> https://vctrs.r-lib.org/ >> >> But it sounds like you already have read a lot of materiale including >> source code so maybe you should not focus on reading. >> I suggest that you instead just start writing a lot of code yourself. >> >> And once every month look at your old code and improve it. >> >> Maybe solve some of the many fun problems at https://adventofcode.com/ >> >> You can also learn a lot by trying to solve issues with existing >> packages. Just find the source on github and >> look at the issues eg. https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues >> >> Regards >> Martin >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
