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Asked: 2026-05-25T13:08:06+00:00

That is : Apply function of two arguments cumulatively to the items of sequence,

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That is : “Apply function of two arguments cumulatively to the items of sequence, from left to right, so as to reduce the sequence to a single value. “

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    Yes, it’s called Reduce.

    An example:

    Reduce(paste, LETTERS[1:5])
[1] "A B C D E"

Reduce(sum, 1:5)
[1] 15

#List arguments work the same
Reduce(sum, list(1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
[1] 15

    For more information about functional programming in R see the help file for ?funprog, an alias for ?Reduce

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