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

[Bert Gunter]

I think you would find it more useful to take a look at John Chambers'
book: Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R.  Much more
authoritative and comprehensive than you are likely to get here.

-- Bert

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, 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
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.



-- 

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics

Internal Contact Info:
Phone: 467-7374
Website:
http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm