âThat meant representation for all.â. Since then, the best of North Carolinaâs legislative leaders, though not all, have presided over its chambers with an eye toward good government. But last weekâs session was a reversion to the strong-arm rule that Republicans decried in the 1980s.
An identity function is a function that always returns the same value as its argument. In other words, the identity function is the function f(x) = x. x.
Anonymous Functions. As remarked at several points in this book, the purpose of the R function function() is to create functions. For instance, consider this code: inc <- function(x) return(x+1) It instructs R to create a function that adds 1 to its argument and then assigns that function to inc.