On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, November 5, 2012, Rolf Turner wrote: > >> On 06/11/12 09:40, Iurie Malai wrote: >> >>> So, R (as a language) can be viewed as an extended S language (S + some >>> improvements)? And the R environment includes this (extended) language + >>> extensions? >>>
R has lots of similarities but it isn't "just" extended S!!! it has many better features grammatically. R packaging to low level language integration being small set of differences. I recommend you to read the R book by the inventor of S, John Chambers, (ACM award recipient) to understand the fundamental differences: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Software-Data-Analysis-Prt ogramming-Statistics/dp/0387759352 S/S+ is a commercial product. R community and academics provides much larger and high quality/reliable open source alternative to this and yet let anyone use it for free, as in freedom, even if you are nasty person, you are allowed to practice this. >> >> Are others getting as sick of this silly, pedantic and completely >> irrelevant pseudo-scholasticism as I am? >> What did you contribute to world accept making toxic comments on the list of one of the largest open source academic software on the planet? No cookies for you, go home. ______________________________________________ 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.