💬 "If you're aiming at humans only, you can build a shiny app. If you want machines to access your data, build an API"

💬 "And remember that any other language can access your R API. You're opening a lot of doors."

#RStats

Some important things to know when working with APIs:

🕸 About http requests : developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…

🚀 About REST API : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Represent…

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@_ColinFay

Jul 10, 2018

[Thread #RStats #Programming ]
Some important points taken from "Object-Oriented Programming, Functional Programming and R", by John M. Chambers
arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3531.…

An article about what is Functional Programming (FP), and how does it differ from Object Oriented Programming (OOP) ?
Note that both these paradigms are used in R, and interact with each others.

Here’s the definition of what FP is :
- Programming == creating function
- Functions returns values computed from arguments (and only these)
- A function has no side effect

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@_ColinFay

Jun 11, 2018

[Thread]
Why do we use arrow `<-` instead of equal `=` for assignment in #RStats :

It’s an historical choice: R comes from S, which used <- for assignment. S uses `<-` partly because it is inspired by APL, which had the ← operator for assignment, as it was developed for this keyboard, which has a key for arrow :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(prog…

Not that at that time, with APL, the arrow was chosen because it distinguished from the equal operator (there were no `==` for testing equality).
See : softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/B…

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