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Looping in R: for loops & the apply family

loops-apply-r

IMDb_Economist_tv_ratings.csv courtesy of tidytuesday

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Overview of lesson

1. R basics - vectors, matrices, lists, logicals

2. Iterating through vectors and matrices with for loops

3. Vectorized vs. sapply vs. for loop

Inspired by this post

4. Looping over a vector or list: sapply() or lapply()

5. Looping over a matrix/data.frame: apply()

6. Faster looping with future.apply

Here's a Data Camp tutorial to learn more about paralell programming in R -- specifically future and future.apply()