Re: [Rd] Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages?

2007-01-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Ross Boylan wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:46:16AM -0600, Ricardo Rios wrote: Hi wizards, does somebody know Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages ? Thanks in advance. You need to explain what you mean by the question, for example what paradigms you have in

Re: [Rd] Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages?

2007-01-04 Thread Ricardo Rios
A programming paradigm is a paradigmatic style of programming (compare with a methodology, which is a paradigmatic style of doing software engineering). I think , the programming paradigm most used for make R packages is the functional programming , but I don't know this statistic. I need this

Re: [Rd] Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages?

2007-01-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Its object oriented in the sense of the Dylan language. It has some functional elements but true functional languages have better support for recursion, tail recursion and absence of side effects whereas side effects are common in R. On 1/4/07, Ricardo Rios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A

Re: [Rd] Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages?

2007-01-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Ricardo Rios wrote: engineering). I think , the programming paradigm most used for make R packages is the functional programming , but I don't know this statistic. I need this information in my thesis. Then you may be in trouble. R (and S before it) are not tidily

Re: [Rd] Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages?

2007-01-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ricardo Rios wrote: Hi wizards, does somebody know Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages ? Thanks in advance. R programming? Most R packages are either written solely in R or in R with a small amount of C or Fortran support code. That includes

Re: [Rd] Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages?

2007-01-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:46:16AM -0600, Ricardo Rios wrote: Hi wizards, does somebody know Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages ? Thanks in advance. You need to explain what you mean by the question, for example what paradigms you have in mind. R is a functional

Re: [Rd] Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages?

2007-01-03 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On 1/4/07, Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:46:16AM -0600, Ricardo Rios wrote: Hi wizards, does somebody know Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages ? Thanks in advance. You need to explain what you mean by the question, for example