[Rd] R as a scripting engine

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are moving
> towards using R as a scripting engine.  (It is often overlooked as such.)
...
> In due course we see phasing out the use of Perl, at least at run time (and
> that might even be for 2.9.0).

That's great news.  I for one will not be sorry to see it and the
shell scripts go.