a philosophy R question
Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language): R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. "www.r-project.org" -> "What Is R?": R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. I've routinely described it as "an object oriented programming language for statistics." It's also a social movement to empower people world wide to ask quantitative questions and do their own statistical analysis, without benefit of expensive software, etc. CRAN, R-Forge, this email list, are all part of the social movement. Hope this helps. Spencer
On 11/20/2010 6:29 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
I had seen it written as a "Language" . I had always thought of it as an environment. Thanks to all, Erin On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Santosh Srinivas <santosh.srinivas at gmail.com> wrote:
Not many really care about what it is called .... but here is what the page says R is `GNU S', a freely available language and environment for statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc. http://cran.r-project.org/index.html -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess Sent: 21 November 2010 07:26 To: R help Subject: [R] a philosophy R question Dear R People: Do we say that R is a programming language or a programming environment, please? Which is correct, please? Thanks in advance, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
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