R vignettes are closer to the topical Racket tutorials (on web and system programming). I was wondering if there is an up to date introduction to the Racket language for readers with previous programming experience; better if concise. It seems that most available books employ Racket to introduce programming concepts, rather than focusing on the language. I am thinking of something like Practical Clojure or Practical Common Lisp published by Apress; or Programming Python or Programming Ruby published by O'Reilly (although the latter two are very long and verbose).<div>
<br></div><div>-g<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Matthias Felleisen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>Something like Vignettes in R? -- Matthias</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Giuseppe Paleologo wrote:</div>
<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><span>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.</span> <div>
<br></div><div>-g<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:12 PM, John Clements <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clements@brinckerhoff.org" target="_blank">clements@brinckerhoff.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Jan 6, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Giuseppe Paleologo wrote:<br>
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> Yes to the quick tutorial, no to the other two, as they're not my intended application.<br>
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</div>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?<br>
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