Message-ID: <3F164B48.8050403@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2003-07-17T07:07:52Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: Formal definitions of R-language.
In-Reply-To: <3F16E059.8020700@hppi.troitsk.ru>
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.
Uwe Ligges