Playing Map() and Reduce() in R – Subsetting

In the previous post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/playing-map-and-reduce-in-r-by-group-calculation), I’ve shown how to employ the MapReduce when calculating by-group statistics. Actually, the same Divide-n-Conquer strategy can be applicable to other use cases, one of which is the subsetting operation. In the example below, let’s still use the same iris data for the demonstration purpose. In R, the most convenient …