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? operator and module for accessing slots / list members #256

Closed AndrewIOM closed 2 years ago

AndrewIOM commented 2 years ago

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It is currently difficult to access properties of lists / S4 objects, usually requiring a reference to RDotNet and the use of dot notation.

This PR introduces a module SymbolicExpression that contains functions that allow R values to be used with forward piping in an F# style, and an Operators module containing a dynamic operator for accessing list / S4 objects based on work in #50 and #63:

open RProvider
open RProvider.datasets

R.mtcars
|> SymbolicExpression.column "mpg"

open RProvider.Operators

R.mtcars?mpg

The introduction of the module and operator, along with new documentation, should help to address #255 by removing the need to reference RDotNet explicitally.

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