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bookChallenge: Real-World Anonymous Functions

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Use your knowledge of anonymous functions and lapply to solve a practical data transformation problem.
Write a function capitalize_first that takes a list of names and returns a new list where each name has its first letter capitalized.

  • Use lapply to apply an anonymous function to each element of names_list.
  • The anonymous function should capitalize only the first letter of each name, leaving the rest unchanged.
  • The function must return a list with the transformed names.

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bookChallenge: Real-World Anonymous Functions

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Use your knowledge of anonymous functions and lapply to solve a practical data transformation problem.
Write a function capitalize_first that takes a list of names and returns a new list where each name has its first letter capitalized.

  • Use lapply to apply an anonymous function to each element of names_list.
  • The anonymous function should capitalize only the first letter of each name, leaving the rest unchanged.
  • The function must return a list with the transformed names.

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