Re: [R] Why is there no macro facility for R?

2025-05-22 Thread Richard O'Keefe
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 wrote: > > R is closely modelled on S. S was always desi

Re: [R] Why is there no macro facility for R?

2025-05-22 Thread Richard O'Keefe
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 Langu

Re: [R] Why is there no macro facility for R?

2025-05-22 Thread Bert Gunter
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 wrote: > > Hi, > > I suppose that I might be conside

Re: [R] Why is there no macro facility for R?

2025-05-22 Thread Marc Schwartz via R-help
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.o

Re: [R] Why is there no macro facility for R?

2025-05-22 Thread Bert Gunter
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 com

[R] Why is there no macro facility for R?

2025-05-22 Thread Sorkin, John
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 la

Re: [R] R session dies on lattice::show.settings()

2025-05-22 Thread peter dalgaard
A nonstandard install of a 3 year old R version? You may have to talk to the anaconda people rather than here. On the face of it, it is looking for something in the MKL libraries, so maybe they linked against it and forgot to list a dependency? If so, maybe install something something mkl somet