Yup, Marc. That was it! I bow to you, oh Yoda. I shall now be able to sleep tonight.
Best, Bert "An educated person is one who can entertain new ideas, entertain others, and entertain herself." On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > > 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.
