[R] functional programming question

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/54896.html

On 2/4/06, Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Many functional programming languages have a metafunction
> which does the following:
> it has two arguments, a function and a list of objects, all of the same
> type.
> The argument function itself has two arguments of the same type as all
> the list objects, and the result of this function also is of the same type.
> then
> metafunction(f,list(x1,x2,....xn)) produces
> f(x1,f(x2,f(x3,....,f(xn-1,xn)))..)
> Does R have such a function, or do I need to code it myself?
> In Scheme (Mathematica), this metafunction is called fold (Fold).
>
>
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