Thanks, the audience is mainly Java developers who develop tailored software for many domains. I think that they would like to have some answers to these kind of questions:
- why should I learn R? - what are the specific use cases where one might think of using R? - in which area R is good for? - how R differ from other programming and scripting languages? - etc. My intention is to convince them so that they will try R on their own, and probably in some day start using R in their projects. Best regards, -J 2012/8/20 R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weyla...@gmail.com>: > As a language, there are some nifty things about function arguments: > http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/01/20/wondrous-oddities-rs-function-call-semantics. > Lexical scoping + first class functions also come to mind. > > If we are thinking about libraries, graphics: > http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ and look into ggplot2 > (including the famous facebook world map) and statistical modelling > (both base and in contributed packages) > > What are your developers interested in and we can be more specific? > > Michael > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:02 PM, 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
