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Re:R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use by jhbadger on Thursday June 09, 2016 @07:20AM (#11868646)
People say that, but I'd prefer the actual LISP syntax then (being a fan of xlispstat back in the day). I'm surprised nobody has created a "Lisp-flavored R" analogous to Erlang's LFE or Python's Hy.
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Re:R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use by hadley on Thursday June 09, 2016 @10:46AM (#11869700)
Most R users aren't programmers, and a LISP-y interface, while powerful, tends to be intimidating.
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Re:R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use by cwyers on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:25AM (#11870009)
I'd prefer something more like TypeScript for R, where you can gradually move over but you get better tooling. I'd also ask for a new standard library but I think Hadley is basically doing that.
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