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Discussions on the future of R
- goalieca 16y agoR is a language that also plagues beginners. I am well versed in nearly a dozen languages ranging from procedural to functional but I find R as mysterious as LaTeX. Those languages are incomprehensible.
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- hsmyers 16y agoSecret to understanding/using LaTeX is to have at hand two books: Guide to LaTeX by Kopka and Daly, and The LaTeX Companion by Mittelbach and Goossens. That plus a project to publish (similar to have a task you want to program) should be enough to get you going. The real problem with LaTeX seems to be retention over time without continued use--- if you don't use it more or less all the time, you tend to forget a lot of the basics...
- hessenwolf 16y agoEee gads, no... but it has all of those libraries... How would a replacement gain traction? Can we at least make sure it can call R code? Can we not just include the features of R in python, instead of using a new language? Has anybody used Rpy? How does it do with packages?
- fxj 16y agohopefully the R community is avoiding the same mistake that python did with python3000. my 2 ct to the future of R: a compiler from R code to LISP would more than fill the gap.
- reirob 16y agoThe presentation reads as a nice advertisement for Clojure. I do not like Clojure because it runs on JVM and all the Java stuff leaves a bitter taste in my mouth - it is a language that was forced down our throats by industry. If they really want to rewrite R from the start to create a new language why don't they use Haskell? It will compile to machine code, it is ready for using multiple cores, it does not embrace JVM. My 2 cents