Hi,
I suppose that I might be considered a grey-hair, both literally and figuratively, at least for what little hair I have left…. ;-) John might find this article by Thomas from R News in September of 2001 of interest. R News was the predecessor to the R Journal: https://journal.r-project.org/articles/RN-2001-021/RN-2001-021.pdf Bert is correct about the 20+ year time frame… :-) Regards, Marc Schwartz > On May 22, 2025, at 10:32 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > John: > 1. You might get a better response if you could give at least a couple of > use case examples of what you mean. > > 2. I have a hazy memory of this being actually discussed on this list ca ~ > 20 years ago. As I recall, some sort of macro facility may have been > implemented in a package using R's compute-on-the-language features. But I > may err -- and whatever was done (if anything) may be irrelevant to your > query. > > Cheers, > Bert > > "An educated person is one who can entertain new ideas, entertain others, > and entertain herself." > > > > On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM Sorkin, John <jsor...@som.umaryland.edu> > wrote: > >> Colleagues, >> >> At the risk of being flamed, starting a war, being labeled a heretic . . . >> etc., I would like to ask the grey-hairs among the R listserve members a >> simple question. Why did the R core team not develop a macro language for >> R. I understand that R was designed to be a function-based language, but >> this does not rule out having macros as a facility that helps in code >> development. >> >> Thank you, >> John >> >> >> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. >> Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; >> Associate Director for Biostatistics and Informatics, Baltimore VA Medical >> Center Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center; >> PI Biostatistics and Informatics Core, University of Maryland School of >> Medicine Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; >> Senior Statistician University of Maryland Center for Vascular Research; >> >> Division of Gerontology and Paliative Care, >> 10 North Greene Street >> GRECC (BT/18/GR) >> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 >> Cell phone 443-418-5382 >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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 >> https://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 https://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 https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
