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

[johannes rara]

Thanks, the audience is mainly Java developers who develop tailored
software for many domains. I think that they would like to have some
answers to these kind of questions:

- why should I learn R?
- what are the specific use cases where one might think of using R?
- in which area R is good for?
- how R differ from other programming and scripting languages?
- etc.

My intention is to convince them so that they will try R on their own,
and probably in some day start using R in their projects.

Best regards,
-J

2012/8/20 R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com>:
> 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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