Calculating the Moving Average of a List

Question

This weekend I decided to try my hand at some Scala and Clojure. I\'m proficient with object oriented programming, and so Scala was easy to pick up as a language, but wante

Answer 1

Here's a clojure version:

Because of the lazy-seq, it's perfectly general and won't blow stack

(defn partialsums [start lst]
  (lazy-seq
    (if-let [lst (seq lst)] 
          (cons start (partialsums (+ start (first lst)) (rest lst)))
          (list start))))

(defn sliding-window-moving-average [window lst]
  (map #(/ % window)
       (let [start   (apply + (take window lst))
             diffseq (map   - (drop window lst) lst)]
         (partialsums start diffseq))))

;; To help see what it's doing:

(sliding-window-moving-average 5 '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11))

start = (+ 1 2 3 4 5) = 15

diffseq = - (6 7 8 9 10 11)
            (1 2 3 4  5  6 7 8 9 10 11)

        =   (5 5 5 5  5  5)

(partialsums 15 '(5 5 5 5 5 5) ) = (15 20 25 30 35 40 45)

(map #(/ % 5) (20 25 30 35 40 45)) = (3 4 5 6 7 8 9)

;; Example

(take 20 (sliding-window-moving-average 5 (iterate inc 0)))