Re: [R] Proposed changes to the R Language

2018-12-30 Thread J C Nash
My friend Morven Gentleman who died recently was for some time chair of the computer faculty at Waterloo and (Fortune nomination!) once said "The response of many computer scientists to any problem is to invent a new programming language." Looking at Ross Ihaka's video, I got the impression he w

Re: [R] Proposed changes to the R Language

2018-12-29 Thread Jeff Newmiller
put on the >back burier. > >AH > >From: Jeff Newmiller >Sent: Friday, 28 December 2018 3:13 PM >To: r-help@r-project.org; Angus C Hewitt (DHHS) >Cc: angus_hew...@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: [R] Proposed changes to the R Language > >I have no idea. But I hope not... that s

Re: [R] Proposed changes to the R Language

2018-12-29 Thread jacob bogers
It has some good ideas, but R (my personal assesment) is not build for superspeed, but for superease of use.)) On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 3:01 PM Angus C Hewitt (DHHS) < angus.hew...@dhhs.vic.gov.au> wrote: > Hi Team, > > Please advise if there are any plans in the pipeline for change the R > langu

Re: [R] Proposed changes to the R Language

2018-12-28 Thread Bert Gunter
I would assume r-devel is where this sort of query should be posted as we mere users have nothing to say about this. However, I've seen discussions and talks about better languages for scientific (but data science?) programming -- Matlab, Julia, Scipy, etc. -- for at least a decade. But with a lib

Re: [R] Proposed changes to the R Language

2018-12-28 Thread Jeff Newmiller
I have no idea. But I hope not... that sounds like a different tool than R, just as C++ is a different tool than C. On December 27, 2018 4:36:42 PM PST, "Angus C Hewitt (DHHS)" wrote: >Hi Team, > >Please advise if there are any plans in the pipeline for change the R >language to "B" as propose

[R] Proposed changes to the R Language

2018-12-28 Thread Angus C Hewitt (DHHS)
Hi Team, Please advise if there are any plans in the pipeline for change the R language to "B" as proposed in the below mentioned statistical series help at Auckland Uni. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88TftllIjaY Kind Regards, Angus Hewitt Senior Analyst | Decision Support System Design,