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- `tryCatch` **unwinds** the call stack — handler runs in the calling environment
not where the error occurred. Cannot resume execution.
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General
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- `tryCatch(expr
error = function(e) e)` returns the error condition object.
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General
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- `Position(f
x)` returns the **index** of the first match (like `Find` but returns position
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General
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- `Find(f
x)` returns the **first** element where `f(elem)` is `TRUE`. `Find(f
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General
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- `lengths(x)` returns the length of **each element** of a list. Equivalent to `sapply(x
length)` but faster (implemented in C).
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General
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- `Filter(f
x)` keeps elements where `f(elem)` is `TRUE`. Unlike `x[sapply(x
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- `Map(f
...)` is a simple wrapper for `mapply(f
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- `Reduce(f
x
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General
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- `Reduce(f
x
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General
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- `Reduce(f
x)` applies binary function `f` cumulatively: `Reduce(+
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General
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- `do.call(fun
args_list)` — `args` must be a **list**
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General
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> Non-obvious behaviors
gotchas
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Data
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- Useful pattern: `do.call(rbind
list_of_dfs)` to combine a list of data frames.
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General
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- `with(df
expr)` avoids repeating `df$` everywhere
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- **misc-utilities.md** — Read when: do.call behaves differently than direct call
need Reduce/Filter/Map
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General
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- Use `stop()`
`warning()`
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General
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- **dates-and-system.md** — Read when: Date/POSIXct conversion gives wrong day
time zones cause off-by-one
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Data
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- **io-and-text.md** — Read when: read.table silently drops data or misparses columns
regex behaves differently than expected
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Data
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- **visualization.md** — Read when: par settings reset unexpectedly
layout/mfrow interaction is confusing
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Data
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- **statistics.md** — Read when: hypothesis test gives surprising result
need to choose correct p.adjust method
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General
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- **modeling.md** — Read when: formula syntax is confusing (`I()`
`*` vs `:`
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Data
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- **data-wrangling.md** — Read when: subsetting returns wrong type
apply on data frame gives unexpected coercion
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General
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For deeper coverage
read the reference files in `references/`:
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General
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Non-obvious behaviors
surprising defaults
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