[racket] Teach yourself Racket in Fixnum Days?

Something like Vignettes in R? -- Matthias



On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Giuseppe Paleologo wrote:

> My applications are mostly in Statistics/Data Analysis. Rather than dealing with a single, massive data set, I often have many medium-sized ones. I find myself applying in R or Python large amounts of maps, reduces, filters and other list manipulations that I believe Racket can perform more expressively. As an example of a building block of what I'd like to build or reuse, consider the R data.frame: an array that can be sliced by rows/ columns using logical indices, numerical indices, or names for rows and columns. Moreover, the rows and columns could be accessed as individual lists. I wonder what's the best way to do this in Racket. I am not looking for a cookbook, but something that teaches the essentials, with examples of non-standard data strucures. 
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> -g
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> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:12 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
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> On Jan 6, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Giuseppe Paleologo wrote:
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> > Yes to the quick tutorial, no to the other two, as they're not my intended application.
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> I'm hoping I can ask this question without committing myself to anything :): Can you describe a simple example project that could be the focus of the kind of guide you're looking for?
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> John Clements
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