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But, many R tools are already vectorised, so your shift from lapply() to mclapply() is about as fair a comparison as claiming it's "just" a shift from python's
by qfwfq_ 3y ago
But, many R tools are already vectorised, so your shift from lapply() to mclapply() is about as fair a comparison as claiming it's "just" a shift from python's builtin map() to pool.map(). Anybody can play this game, and it's not helpful. I've been using+teaching R now for nearly seven years and the number of times I've used lapply can be counted on one hand.
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- Bootvis 3y agoI use sapply all the time to transform data all the time. It tends to be less code (no counter, no output initialisation ) and easier to follow if that style is familiar.
- j7ake 3y agoI am curious now, what do you use instead of lapply (or other *apply variants)?
- nequo 3y agoThere is also this in the futureverse if you like for loop style code more: library(doFuture) plan(multisession) y <- foreach(x = 1:4, y = 1:10) %dofuture% { z <- x + y slow_sqrt(z) } https://dofuture.futureverse.org/ https://dofuture.futureverse.org/
- Dylan16807 3y ago> just This isn't documentation or a guide or helping someone. It's a friendly competition between languages so it gets to use the perspective of someone that's familiar with things.