Playing with Ruby Patterns in R
I was returning to a long-term project I’ve been working on - a package for caching HTTP requests in R called vcr, a port of the Ruby gem vcr - when you do that thing you do when you are porting a library from one language to another. I stumbled upon some methods/functions I wasn’t familiar with. For example, take_while I had never seeen before. It iterates over an array, returning the elements of the array that evalulate to true (for those new to Ruby, they use true instead of TRUE as we do in R) when passed through the function given....