What is a predicate?
A predicate function is "a function that either returns TRUE or FALSE." While a predicate functional "takes a vector and a predicate function and do something useful."***
In other words, the predicate functionals take in .x
, which is a vector, a dataframe, or a list, and test the predicate on every element of .x
. For example, you can test if every element is numeric with the is.numeric()
predicate from R-Base, or if the mean of some elements is under 5 with this mapper: ~mean(.x) < 5
.
Which of these functions is NOT a predicate?
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Intermediate Functional Programming with purrr
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