I had seen it written as a "Language" . I had always thought of it as an environment.
Thanks to all, Erin On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Santosh Srinivas <santosh.srini...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not many really care about what it is called .... but here is what the page > says > > > R is `GNU S', a freely available language and environment for statistical > computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and > graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, > time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc. > > http://cran.r-project.org/index.html > > > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Erin Hodgess > Sent: 21 November 2010 07:26 > To: R help > Subject: [R] a philosophy R question > > Dear R People: > > Do we say that R is a programming language or a programming environment, > please? > > Which is correct, please? > > Thanks in advance, > Sincerely, > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
