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Foundations of Functional Programming with purrr

Learn to easily summarize and manipulate lists using the purrr package.

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Lists can be difficult to both understand and manipulate, but they can pack a ton of information and are very powerful. In this course, you will learn to easily extract, summarize, and manipulate lists and how to export the data to your desired object, be it another list, a vector, or even something else! Throughout the course, you will work with the purrr package and a variety of datasets from the repurrrsive package, including data from Star Wars and Wes Anderson films and data collected about GitHub users and GitHub repos. Following this course, your list skills will be purrrfect!
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    Simplifying Iteration and Lists With purrr

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    Iteration is a powerful way to make the computer do the work for you. It can also be an area of coding where it is easy to make lots of typos and simple mistakes. The purrr package helps simplify iteration so you can focus on the next step, instead of finding typos.

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    The power of iteration
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    Introduction to iteration
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    Iteration with purrr
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    More iteration with for loops
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    More iteration with purrr
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    Subsetting lists
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    List structure
    100 xp
    Subsetting list elements
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    The many flavors of map()
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    map() argument alternatives
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    map_*
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Chester Ismay
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