The R Community made a call for one person to be in charge of R Contributed Documentation, and I have done a request for being in charge of such duty.
If assigned, my plan is to implement Atlassian's Confluence along the R Community (Accessed though R Project.org), in order to generate a Wiki and Document Store for R, at all levels (R Internals, User Tutorials, etc.) In a similar way the Apache Software Foundation does: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/dashboard.action So contribution and user guide for internals could be documented in such platform for future users. El 21/11/2017 10:26 p. m., "Jeff Newmiller" <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> escribió: > 1) What is easy for one person may be very hard for another, so your > question is really unanswerable. You do need to know C and Fortran to get > through the source code. Get started soon reading the R Internals document > if it sounds interesting to you... you are bound to learn something even if > you don't stick with it. If you have questions about the internals though, > you should read the Posting Guide to find out where to ask them (hint: not > here). > > 2) There are lots of blogs and surveys out there about how R's popularity > has increased over time, though Python seems to have higher billing in job > descriptions I have seen. Generally if you know multiple tools and the > underlying theory you are working with then you are more likely to succeed, > so don't limit yourself by dismissing R for reasons of comparative > popularity. > -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > On November 21, 2017 11:14:45 AM PST, Robert Wilkins < > iwriteco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >How difficult is it to get a good feel for the internals of R, if you > >want > >to learn the general code base, but also the CPU intensive stuff ( much > >of > >it in C or Fortran?) and the ways in which the general code and the CPU > >intensive stuff is connected together? > > > >R has a very large audience, but my understanding is that only a small > >group have a good understanding of the internals (and some of those > >will > >eventually move on to something else in their career, or retire > >altogether). > > > >While I'm at it, a second question: 15 years ago, nobody would ever > >offer a > >job based on R skills ( SAS, yes, SPSS, maybe, but R skills, year after > >year, did not imply job offers). How much has that changed, both for R > >and > >for NumPy/Pandas/SciPy ? > > > >thanks in advance > > > >Robert > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > >______________________________________________ > >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >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. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
