[R] a philosophy R question

[Erin Hodgess]

I had seen it written as a "Language" .  I had always thought of it as
an environment.

Thanks to all,
Erin


On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Santosh Srinivas
<santosh.srinivas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not many really care about what it is called .... but here is what the page
> says
>
>
> R is `GNU S', a freely available language and environment for statistical
> computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and
> graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests,
> time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc.
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/index.html
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Erin Hodgess
> Sent: 21 November 2010 07:26
> To: R help
> Subject: [R] a philosophy R question
>
> Dear R People:
>
> Do we say that R is a programming language or a programming environment,
> please?
>
> Which is correct, please?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sincerely,
> Erin
>
>
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> Erin Hodgess
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> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
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-- 
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com