Dear Mark, On Friday 19 January 2007 09:55, Kimpel, Mark William wrote: > I have 3 years of experience with R and have an interest in becoming a > better programmer so that I might someday be able to contribute > packages. Other than R, my only experience was taking Lisp from Daniel > Friedman in the 1970's. I would like to learn either C or C++ for > several reasons: > > To gain a better concept of object oriented programming so that I can > begin to use S4 methods in R. >
I do not think C++ is the best idea if you are learning it to understand the OOP of R. The OOP of R is probably closer to that of CLOS (the common lisp object system) than C++ and Java. It might be better to directly go ahead and look for documentation specificaly about R's OOP. > To perhaps speed up some things I do repeatedly in R > > To be able to contribute a package someday. > > > > I have been doing some reading and from what I can tell R is more > compatible with C, but C++ has much greater capabilities for OO > programming. > > > > I have just started reading The C++ Programming Language: Special > Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup > <http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?ATH=Bjarne+Stro > ustrup&z=y> , he recommends first learning C++ and then then C if > necessary, but as a developer of C++, he is probably biased. > > > > I would greatly appreciate the advice of the R developers and package > contributors on this subject. "C" or "C++"? > > I'd recommend C instead of C++: C++ is a huge language and it is somewhat easier to interface C than C++ from R. (In "non-R" stuff I prefer to use C++ better than C, even if just as in "C++as a better C", but this probably is not a reasonable reason to learn C++). HTH, R. > > Thanks, > > > > Mark > > > > Mark W. Kimpel MD > > > > > > Official Business Address: > > > > Department of Psychiatry > > Indiana University School of Medicine > > PR M116 > > Institute of Psychiatric Research > > 791 Union Drive > > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > > > > Preferred Mailing Address: > > > > 15032 Hunter Court > > Westfield, IN 46074 > > > > (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile > > > > (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) > > 1-(317)-536-2730 FAX > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) (Spanish National Cancer Center) Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3 28029 Madrid (Spain) Fax: +-34-91-224-6972 Phone: +-34-91-224-6900 http://ligarto.org/rdiaz PGP KeyID: 0xE89B3462 (http://ligarto.org/rdiaz/0xE89B3462.asc) **NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD** Este correo electrónico, y en s...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
