Recently ran into something interesting in the R macros/quasi-quotation/substitution/syntax front:
It appears !! is no longer the last word in substitution (it certainly wasn’t the first).
The described effect is actually already pretty easy t…
Category: Coding
Getting Started With rquery
To make getting started with rquery (an advanced query generator for R) easier we have re-worked the package README for various data-sources (including SparkR!). Here are our current examples: rquery and MonetDBLite rquery and RPostgreSQL rquery and RSQLite rquery and SparkR rquery and sparklyr For the MonetDBLite the query diagrammer shows a repeated calculation that … Continue reading Getting Started With rquery
Playing With Pipe Notations
Recently Hadley Wickham prescribed pronouncing the magrittr pipe as “then” and using right-assignment as follows: I am not sure if it is a good or bad idea. But let’s play with it a bit, and perhaps readers can submit their experience and opinions in the comments section. Right assignment Right assignment is a bit of … Continue reading Playing With Pipe Notations
Timing the Same Algorithm in R, Python, and C++
While developing the RcppDynProg R package I took a little extra time to port the core algorithm from C++ to both R and Python. This means I can time the exact same algorithm implemented nearly identically in each of these three languages. So I can extract some comparative “apples to apples” timings. Please read on … Continue reading Timing the Same Algorithm in R, Python, and C++
Quoting Concatenate
In our last note we used wrapr::qe() to help quote expressions. In this note we will discuss quoting and code-capturing interfaces (interfaces that capture user source code) a bit more. My position on code-capturing interfaces (or non-standard-evaluation/NSE) is: if poorly handled, they can be a large interface price/risk to pay for the minor convenience of … Continue reading Quoting Concatenate
Reusable Pipelines in R
Pipelines in R are popular, the most popular one being magrittr as used by dplyr. This note will discuss the advanced re-usable piping systems: rquery/rqdatatable operator trees and wrapr function object pipelines. In each case we have a set of objects designed to extract extra power from the wrapr dot-arrow pipe %.>%. Piping Piping is … Continue reading Reusable Pipelines in R
Timing Grouped Mean Calculation in R
This note is a comment on some of the timings shared in the dplyr-0.8.0 pre-release announcement. The original published timings were as follows: With performance metrics: measurements are marketing. So let’s dig in the above a bit. These timings are of the kind of small task large number of repetition breed that Matt Dowle writes … Continue reading Timing Grouped Mean Calculation in R