Terry Therneau <therneau <at> mayo.edu> writes: > To summarize: my own interactive mix of emacs/R may be unusual. > For pure interactive folks completion does most of the work. I > hadn't tried the newest ESS interactive-within-emacs till today, > it's slick as well. The number of people howling will be less than > my original thought, though not zero.
For what it's worth I have a similar working style, although I could probably train myself/adjust my working style if it came to it. > Still, this change could cause a lot of grief for saved R > scripts. In our group the code + data directory is archived > whenever a medical paper is submitted (close to 500/year), and it is > very common to pull one back as is 1-4 years later for further > exploration. A very small subset of those are in a legal context > where exact reproducability is paramount. Just to nitpick a bit -- as I think has been pointed out before, if you *really* need exact reproducibility then you probably need to be doing something more elaborate (e.g. saving complete R+package installations/virtual machines). But I agree on the general point. (I don't envy R-core these decisions -- but given how conservative they are generally, it seems that they would be willing to consider being very careful with this change as well.) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
