Re: [R] Some general comments

2025-06-14 Thread avi.e.gross
John, You made me wonder if pipes add anything new to R. I happen to think they do and one argument to consider is that starting with the Magrittr pipe and on into the tidyverse, many people choose to use them quite a bit. Note that the ggplot2 graphics in various packages use something similar

Re: [R] Some general comments

2025-06-14 Thread avi.e.gross
Richard, You remind me of my excursions over the years into many languages, including some that may be extinct. Is PASCAL used anywhere, for example? I wrote lots of code in it once. Others that I know are around have morphed as in variations of LISP. I was amused to hear from a friend that h

Re: [R] Some general comments

2025-06-14 Thread Sorkin, John
For what it is worth, Yes, languages (natural and artificial) grow and change with time. An important question to ask when thinking about changes to an artificial language (particularly a programming language) is does the change improve the language functionality or simply add a new dialect to

Re: [R] Some general comments

2025-06-14 Thread Richard O'Keefe
Avi Gross asked “i often wonder what would happen if someone took a language that was decades old…”. Welcome to F. F is basically modern Fortran without the cruftier old bits. I note that I have some software written in the 1980s in C which no modern C compiler will accept (not my code, although

Re: [R] How to stratify data with multiple group simultaneously with R ggplot2?

2025-06-14 Thread Luigi Marongiu
Thank you! On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM Rui Barradas wrote: > > Às 07:41 de 13/06/2025, Luigi Marongiu escreveu: > > Thank you, facets are good but I was looking for something that could > > merge everything in a single plot. I found that I could create an > > additional column, say M (merge),

Re: [R] Some general comments

2025-06-14 Thread Ivan Krylov via R-help
Dear data analyst (or small investor?), В Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:49:37 + (UTC) Small Investor via R-help пишет: > 1. Version compatibility issues seem to be on the rise. Very > often, you get the message that package x was built on R version y > (and thus, won't work in your version of R). Is