> If you take a functional approach, especially using pipes, dplyr and a split, apply, combine style, it is quite beautiful Sure, but what if you don't? Someti

> If you take a functional approach, especially using pipes, dplyr and a split, apply, combine style, it is quite beautiful Sure, but what if you don't? Sometimes, this is the right way to do things, other times there are other approaches that are more natural/beautiful. In many cases, a loop with conditionals is much easier to understand.