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Modern R Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern R Programming Cookbook Recipes to simplify your statistical applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129054
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaynal Abedin Jaynal Abedin
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring R and its Libraries FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Structures in R 3. Writing Customized Functions 4. Conditional and Iterative Operations 5. R Objects and Classes 6. Querying, Filtering, and Summarizing 7. R for Text Processing 8. R and Databases 9. Parallel Processing in R

Writing functions with multiple arguments and use of default values

The input of a function is known as an argument. Often, you may need to write a customized function with multiple inputs. In this recipe, you will learn to use multiple arguments and the default values of the argument.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you will write a new customized function that will take more than one input, and at least one of them will contain default values. Specifically, in this recipe, the function will take one numeric vector as input and another character input with a default value. The objective of this function is to calculate descriptive statistics of the numeric vector, and another character input will specify the type of descriptive...

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