Message-ID: <971536df0901111226w7e3ab784p754ab353118590bf@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-01-11T20:26:03Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: R as a scripting engine
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.1.00.0901111151050.16921@tystie.local>
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.)
...
> 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.