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#NowWatching — @TrestleJeff, talking about {plumber} 🛠⚙️register.gotowebinar.com/register/55312…
#RStats #RStudio #Webinar 💬 "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."

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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.

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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…

Current status: looking for more memes to put in my @erum2018 talk.
#RStats #eRum2018 So far, I've got: