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Functions, Environments, Closures: Alternatives to Objects (an intro)
Intro So I’ve mentioned the concepts of Functional Programming in R a couple of times (here & here) already. I’ve also played a bit with OOP (Object Oriented Programming) in R. But I needed to explain it to others. There are MANY resources on the topic, but I wanted to SHOW it with a reasonably…
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A series on IP addresses in R – 1/n
As is usual, data in the security field is “domain specific”. Among other things, certain numbers are to be treated like factors and not ordinals (e.g. TCP Port Numbers…). IP addresses are an example of data that “looks” somewhat numeric, and actually can be transformed into numerics, but are not exactly such. An IP…