How much of R is written in R?

Re:How much of R is written in R? by onan_barbarian on Saturday August 27, 2011 @07:13PM (#2932813)

Correct. The language R is just plain weird (insane ideas about scoping/binding that seem to be completely unlike anything you've seen in any reasonably designed language in the last 20 years) and not very efficient to boot, unless you hit one of the bits that's just C under the hood.

However, the vast, vast repository of every statistical analysis under the sun - not just 'core R' but every thing that any statistician has hacked up - is unparalleled.

My 'coping with R' strategy is to do all the heavy lifting data manipulation in C/C++/Python, then do one-shot things in R. I just pass csv files around but there are tighter integrations of R and python if you want to look into that.

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Re:How much of R is written in R? by dagw on Sunday August 28, 2011 @02:47AM (#2933480)

Just as an aside, "coping with R" would be an awesome concept for a book or series of blog posts.

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Re:How much of R is written in R? by onan_barbarian on Sunday August 28, 2011 @08:45AM (#2933837)

Or maybe 'Living with R', sort of akin to the self-help-book 'Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' type genre.

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Re:How much of R is written in R? by etrain on Sunday August 28, 2011 @09:03AM (#2933867)

Could you go into more detail about the "insane" scoping/binding ideas? I've always found the environment model very straightforward and am wondering if I'm missing something.

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