Re: Seeking Guidance on Advancing Functional Programming Skills in R

Thanks, I really appreciate all your suggestions. I’ll work on them.

Le ven. 13 févr. 2026 à 12:52, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen <
[email protected]> a écrit :

> On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 at 18:00, SAAD LAMJADLI <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Dear R Users,
> >
> > I am looking for a roadmap to learn advanced functional programming in R.
>
> Which part of functional programming in R do you find hard to understand?
> Thomas Mailund's book has a lot of focus on R4 but functional
> programming is so much more.
>
> Have you looked at the purrr-packages and the family of apply-functions ?
> If you want to make your own packages I suggest you read about vctrs:
> https://vctrs.r-lib.org/
>
> But it sounds like you already have read a lot of materiale including
> source code so maybe you should not focus on reading.
> I suggest that you instead just start writing a lot of code yourself.
>
> And once every month look at your old code and improve it.
>
> Maybe solve some of the many fun problems at https://adventofcode.com/
>
> You can also learn a lot by trying to solve issues with existing
> packages. Just find the source on github and
> look at the issues eg. https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues
>
> Regards
> Martin
>

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