R vignettes are closer to the topical Racket tutorials (on web and system programming). I was wondering if there is an up to date introduction to the Racket language for readers with previous programming experience; better if concise. It seems that most available books employ Racket to introduce programming concepts, rather than focusing on the language. I am thinking of something like Practical Clojure or Practical Common Lisp published by Apress; or Programming Python or Programming Ruby published by O'Reilly (although the latter two are very long and verbose).
-g On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu>wrote: > > Something like Vignettes in R? -- Matthias > > > > On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Giuseppe Paleologo wrote: > > My applications are mostly in Statistics/Data Analysis. Rather than > dealing with a single, massive data set, I often have many medium-sized > ones. I find myself applying in R or Python large amounts of maps, reduces, > filters and other list manipulations that I believe Racket can perform more > expressively. As an example of a building block of what I'd like to build > or reuse, consider the R data.frame: an array that can be sliced by rows/ > columns using logical indices, numerical indices, or names for rows and > columns. Moreover, the rows and columns could be accessed as individual > lists. I wonder what's the best way to do this in Racket. I am not looking > for a cookbook, but something that teaches the essentials, with examples of > non-standard data strucures. > > -g > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:12 PM, John Clements > <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org>wrote: > >> >> On Jan 6, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Giuseppe Paleologo wrote: >> >> > Yes to the quick tutorial, no to the other two, as they're not my >> intended application. >> >> I'm hoping I can ask this question without committing myself to anything >> :): Can you describe a simple example project that could be the focus of >> the kind of guide you're looking for? >> >> John Clements >> >> > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > >
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