The three most common open source technologies for writing data science programs are Python, SciLab, and R. Here's how to write program-defined functions in R. There's no clear definition of the term ...
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What is lambda? You may know that it’s the eleventh letter in the Greek alphabet. Perhaps you recall from Physics that it’s the symbol used to represent wavelength in calculations, or you might have ...
Build flexible Excel functions that automatically handle blanks, defaults, and overrides without messy nested IFs.
Local functions enable you to define a function within the scope of another method to help in promoting encapsulation and bring local variables into scope The support for local functions is an ...
In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...