retrieve_data.js

var articles = [
  {
    title: 'Everything Sucks',
    url: 'http://do.wn/sucks.html',
    author: {
      name: 'Debbie Downer',
      email: 'debbie@do.wn'
    }
  },
  {
    title: 'If You Please',
    url: 'http://www.geocities.com/milq',
    author: {
      name: 'Caspar Milquetoast',
      email: 'hello@me.com'
    }
  }
];


var defineElem = function (obj) {
  return [ 
    (function (obj)  {
      return (R.compose(R.prop('name'), R.prop('author')))(obj)
    })(obj)
    ,
    (function (obj) {
      return (R.prop('title'))(obj);
    })(obj)
  ];
};


var titleAndName = R.reduce((acc, obj) => {
  return acc.concat([ defineElem(obj) ]);
}, []);

titleAndName(articles);

As you can see I use tennent's correspondence principle in order to delay actual evaluation of how components will be formed. I don't know is it necessary or not, but this is how I did this