> Martin Maechler has asked me to send this to R-devel for discussion > after I submitted it as an enhancement request ( > https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17563).
I think R needs to provide more support for CAS-style symbolic computation. That is, support by either the R language itself or the standard packages, or both. (And certainly not by interfacing with another interpreted language). Obviously, I don't speak for R Core. However, this is how I would like to see R move in the future. ...improved symbolic and symbolic-numeric computation... I think any changes to formula objects or their methods, should be congruent with these symbolic improvements. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel