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dagw on March 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

R is, at its core, a functional language with a bunch of largely optional imperative bits bolted on.

sooheon on March 18, 2015 [–]

One of R's great current evangelists, Hadley Wickham, is taking it back to its functional roots[1](http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/introdu...) as well.

hadley on March 18, 2015 | [–]

See also http://github.com/hadley/purrr

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