10 R One Liners to Impress Your Friends

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Following the trend of one liners for various languages (Haskell, Scala, Python), here’s some examples in R

Multiply Each Item in a List by 2
#lists
lapply(list(1:4),function(n){n*2})
# otherwise
(1:4)*2
 

Sum a List of Numbers
#lists
lapply(list(1:4),sum)

# otherwise
sum(unlist(list(1:4))) # or simply
sum(1:4)
 
Verify if Exists in a String
wordlist = c("lambda", "data", "plot", "statistics", "R")
tweet = c("R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display")
wordlist[wordlist %in% (c(unlist(strsplit(tweet,' ', fixed=T))))]
 


Read in a File
readLines("data.file", n=-1)
 

Happy Birthday to You!
lapply((1:4),function(x){ paste(c("Happy Birthday to ", ifelse(x!=3, "you", "dear Name")), sep="", collapse="")})
 


Filter list of numbers
n = c(49, 58, 76, 82, 88, 90); c(list(n[which(n<=60)]),list(n[which(n>60)]))
 
Fetch and Parse an XML web service
library('XML'); xmlParseDoc('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?&q=R-Project', asText=F)
 

Find minimum (or maximum) in a List
# for lists
lapply(list(c(14, 35, -7, 46, 98)), min, classes="numeric", how="replace")

# otherwise
min(unlist(list(14, 35, -7, 46, 98)))
# or simply
min(c(14, 35, -7, 46, 98))
max(c(14, 35, -7, 46, 98))
 

Parallel Processing
# http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doSMP/vignettes/gettingstartedSMP.pdf
# copy from Section 4 An example doSMP session
library(doSMP); w <- startWorkers(workerCount = 4); registerDoSMP(w); foreach(i = 1:3) %dopar% sqrt(i)
 

Sieve of Eratosthenes
##ok, this one is a little cheating
library('spuRs'); primesieve(c(),2:50)
 
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