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. > > To perhaps speed up some things I do repeatedly in R > > To be able to contribute a package someday. > If you decide to use C++ with R you should check out the documentation that comes with the package RcppTemplate, and the sample code that comes with that package. In my experience C++ (or C or FORTRAN) is needed for many compute intensive tasks, and the R framework provides a nice front-end with its extensive collection of visualization and statistical analysis tools.
Disclaimer: I have no experience with S4. ds ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
