Message-ID: <3F165FD5.1090907@transborder.org>
Date: 2003-07-17T08:35:33Z
From: Douglas Trainor
Subject: Formal definitions of R-language.
In-Reply-To: <3F164B48.8050403@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Uwe Ligges wrote:
> M.Kondrin wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> Some CS-guys (the type who knows what Church formalism is) keep
>> asking me questions about formal definitions of R-language that I can
>> not answer (or even understand). Is there some freely available
>> papers which I can throw at them where it would be explained is R
>> functional/OOP/procedural language, does it use weak/strong,
>> dynamic/static typization, does it use lazy or ...(do not know what)
>> evaluation, what sort of garbage collector it uses?
>> Thanks.
>
>
> R ships with a draft version of the manual "R Language Definition".
> Another source is Venables & Ripley (2000): S Programming, Springer.
Tell the "CS-guys" to grab the source code and chew on the LALR
context-free grammar stuff in the file "gram.y" as in:
R-1.7.1/src/main/gram.y
"R Language Definition" lives at:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.pdf