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Statistical programming with R: Part 2 (IBM developerWorks)

IBM developerWorks looks at finding and analyzing anomalies using R. "True to its functional programming heritage, you can do most everything you want to do in R using plain declarative statements. Two features of R make imperative flow control superfluous in most cases. In the first place, you have already seen that most operations on collection objects work elementwise. There is no need to manually loop through a vector of data to do something to its elements, as you can simply do something to all the elements of a vector..."
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