Anonymous Functions, Not Variables
Use the LHS of a formula to specify variable names in purrr-style lambda functions
I am a very heavy purrr user. The killer
feature is clearly map_df
(fairly recently rebranded as map_dfr
and
map_dfc
for row and column binding, respectively) to iterate over a list à la
lapply
and simplify the result to a data frame. Thanks to the power of
dplyr::bind_rows
, it fixes all the drawbacks of sapply
’s simplify2array
behavior: