That was supposed to be section 6, not section 5. That's what comes of sharing your keyboard with a cat... https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html#Computing-on-the-language
On Fri, 23 May 2025 at 18:00, Richard O'Keefe <rao...@gmail.com> wrote: > > R is closely modelled on S. S was always designed to interoperate > well with UNIX tools. > Unix has always had cpp (for c-like languages) and m4 > (general-purpose) as outboard macro processors. > Then too, the classic S Blue Book explained how to do "computing on > the language'", > see section 5 of R Language Definition, > so the AST-based macro processor for R is called (drum roll please) R. > > On Fri, 23 May 2025 at 14:14, 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
