tidyverse/purrr

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1401 stars · 294 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

purrr is an R package that enhances R's functional programming toolkit with a complete, consistent set of tools for working with functions and vectors. Its family of map() functions lets users replace for loops with succinct, type-stable, pipe-friendly iteration code.

Use cases

• replace for loops with map functions in R
• fit models to each group of a split data frame
• iterate over lists and vectors with type-stable output
• extract components from lists by name or position
• track progress of long-running map jobs
• parallelize map computations across cores or machines

When to choose

• you write R and want cleaner iteration than for loops or apply functions
• you need type-stable map variants like map_dbl() or map_chr()
• you want pipe-friendly functional programming within the tidyverse
• you need easy progress tracking or parallel execution for map operations

When to avoid

• you work outside R
• you prefer base R apply-family functions or avoid tidyverse dependencies
• you need high-performance big-data parallelism beyond simple multicore mapping

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools data-science concurrency data-science programming-languages developer-tools python r functional-programming tidyverse map-functions iteration type-stable

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