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It's not about the features, it's literally about library support. If someone wrote an easy to use R-emulator in C then all this would be moot since you could t
by zaarn 8y ago
It's not about the features, it's literally about library support. If someone wrote an easy to use R-emulator in C then all this would be moot since you could then just bind the libraries into literally every language ever.
I'm not proposing that "my language would be better", rather, "every language would be better".
- FranzFerdiNaN 8y agoBut nobody has written it and most likely nobody will, because statisticians are perfect happy with R and programmers aren't using R enough to bother.
- kgwgk 8y agoThe R interpreter is written in C and there is an API allowing you to use it from other languages.