I am not necessarily referring to the business model (though many people asking this question are), but rather the install-to-bare-os deployment model that controls the user experience throughout. You typically need to install R as a separate product and use it interactively to kick your "application" into gear, should you choose to develop such. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On September 28, 2015 6:26:57 AM PDT, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Jeff Newmiller ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> >wrote: > >> R is not designed as an application development programming language. > > >This is an interesting statement to me. I don't really understand it. >I >have developed some applications in R. Do do you mean _commercial_ >applications (i.e. something paid for)? I think of R a bit like I >think of >SAS (which may be stupid of me). There are some commercial SAS >applications >(one that I know of is MXG for doing performance analysis and reporting >on >a specific OS - z/OS, which runs on IBM z series "mainframes"). > ><snip> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.