[R] On the Design of the R Language

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:57:31 +0200,peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Apr 25, 2012, at 20:19 , Marc Schwartz wrote:

> > I have not read it yet, but the acknowledgements at the end of the paper note that:
> > 
> > 1. It was supported by an NSF grant.
> > 
> > 2. At least two members of R Core are recognized amongst the list of names.

> Also, most of the overall content is hardly a surprise to R Core (not
> that I have read it properly either). R as a language has many
> weaknesses and Luke can certainly attest the difficulties in writing
> compilers for R due to the fact that semantics can change at any moment
> (I believe that's what the authors refer to as "extreme dynamism").

> Competent critical review by computer scientist should be welcomed, and
> in my opinion is long overdue. As has been said, the good _and_ the bad
> thing about R is that it was designed by statisticians...


There are also recent comments in lambda the ultimate, prompted by a talk
by John Cook


http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4503


(apologies if this has already been posted to the list; I didn't see it).


Best,


R.



> -pd

> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Marc Schwartz
> > 
> > On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Thomas Adams wrote:
> > 
> >> Hmmm∑ an 'objective' assessment? Maybe. But it looks to me that some
> >> commercial enterprise paid for this study as a means to argue against the
> >> use of R in favor of a commercial package∑
> >> 
> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:48 PM, R. Michael Weylandt <
> >> michael.weylandt at gmail.com> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/jv/pubs/ecoop12.pdf
> >>> 
> >>> A new paper out on R the language -- I'm not all the way through it but
> >>> it's been an interesting read so far. Thought it might be of interest to
> >>> the list.
> >>> 
> >>> Michael Weylandt
> >>>      [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> > 
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