Function Composition in R (and high level functions)

问题

Is there something like a function composition in R?

I think in haskell it's somthing like "(.)" and in agda it's the ring operator.

Also, I find litte information on high level functional programming in R. I found the Functions "Reduce", "Map", "Filter"..., are there more? Any pointers?

回答1:

You may make compositing function like this:

composite<-function(f,g) function(...) f(g(...))

f<-function(x) x+1;
g<-function(x) x*2;
composite(f,g)(7)
composite(g,f)(7)

or make operator of this.

About the second point, there are lots of such; I think the most used are the *apply family (sapply, mapply, tapply, lapply, apply...).

回答2:

The functional package has a Compose functional which generalizes to any number of functions:

set.seed(123)
x <- matrix(runif(100), 10, 10)
mean(rowSums(scale(x)))
# [1] 5.486063e-18

library(functional)
Compose(scale, rowSums, mean)(x)
# [1] 5.486063e-18

(Note that the functions are applied from left to right.)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4918819/function-composition-in-r-and-high-level-functions