[R] Web Site Suggestion Regarding R Source
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at myway.com
Tue Oct 14 16:47:25 CEST 2003
In the Lua language they have put the entire source on the net in
such a way that you can easily browse it. Go to:
http://www.lua.org/source/5.0/
to see what I mean.
One of the nice things about R is that if you want more info on
a function than in the help page you can just type the name of
the function at the R prompt and you get its source, at least if
it itself was written in R. Methods complicate this a bit but its
still relatively easy to get the source.
Unfortunately, for someone trying to find out what a function
does, the real work may be done in C in which case you come to a
dead end. Admittedly its possible to get the source but
this requires a bit of work (downloading large files, figuring
out rsync) and some hunting around.
If the R source were placed on the net in a similar fashion to Lua
I think this would make it more accessible and help people help
themselves by making it easier to answer many questions
themselves that they currently have to go to rhelp for.
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