I think you would find it more useful to take a look at John Chambers' book: Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R. Much more authoritative and comprehensive than you are likely to get here.
-- Bert On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, johannes rara <johannesr...@gmail.com> wrote: > My intention is to give a presentation about R programming language > for software developers. I would like to ask, what are the things that > make R different from other programming languages? What are the > specific cases where Java/C#/Python developer might say "Wow, that was > neat!"? What are the things that are easy in R, but very difficult in > other programming languages (like Java)? > > Thanks, > -J > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.