R as a scripting engine
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are moving towards using R as a scripting engine. (It is often overlooked as such.)
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In due course we see phasing out the use of Perl, at least at run time (and that might even be for 2.9.0).
That's great news. I for one will not be sorry to see it and the shell scripts go.