>> (Will someone here please write an O'Reilly's "Programming in R"? :)
Someone already has ... see Venable and Ripley's S PROGRAMMING. **However** R is more than a general purpose programming language: it is a programming language specifically designed for data analysis -- including statistical graphics -- and statistics. So, IMHO anyway, it's really impossible to discuss it without reference to the data structures and procedures underlying such tasks. Because it is targeted to do those sorts of things well, it may handle poorly some things that general purpose languages do well (minimizing storage with the use of references, for example). My own experience is that one appreciates the power and beauty of the language and the wisdom of the designers the more one uses it in real applications. But I am not a computer scientist and have only a limited exposure to standard CS concepts and algorithms, to say nothing of "real" programming experience. So just my $.02. Best regards, Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Statistics ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
