[R] What makes R different from other programming languages?

[R. Michael Weylandt]

As a language, there are some nifty things about function arguments:
http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/01/20/wondrous-oddities-rs-function-call-semantics.
Lexical scoping +  first class functions also come to mind.

If we are thinking about libraries, graphics:
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ and look into ggplot2
(including the famous facebook world map) and statistical modelling
(both base and in contributed packages)

What are your developers interested in and we can be more specific?

Michael

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:02 PM, johannes rara <johannesraja at gmail.com> wrote:
> My intention is to give a presentation about R programming language
> for software developers. I would like to ask, what are the things that
> make R different from other programming languages? What are the
> specific cases where Java/C#/Python developer might say "Wow, that was
> neat!"? What are the things that are easy in R, but very difficult in
> other programming languages (like Java)?
>
> Thanks,
> -J
>
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