Well put, Gabor! P.S. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth. Just couldn't resist, so much true it is.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabor > Grothendieck > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:06 AM > To: Andy Bunn > Cc: R-Help > Subject: Re: [R] congratulations to the JGR developers > > On 5/2/05, Andy Bunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just want to offer my congratulations to the JGR > developers as the > > > recepient of the 2005 Chambers Award. Great job, guys!! > > > http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/JGR/ > > > > This feels like the future of R to me. It's simple, powerful, and > > elegant just like R. As soon as the binary that works with 2.1 is > > released I'll use it exclusively on Linux and Windows. I'm > deeply impressed. > > I have not tried JGR but regarding your three adjective > describing R, R is very powerful but I am not sure I would > characterize it as simple and elegant -- complex and > practical seem nearer to the mark to me. > Some parts of R may be simple and elegant but when I think of > simple and elegant languages I think of ones that are > organized around a > single concept like APL (arrays), Smalltalk (objects), etc. > The underlying > Lisp roots of R may have a certain simplicity to them and S3 > (though not > S4) is relatively simple but not R as a whole. On the other > hand, the fact that it is practical, powerful and free with a > broad set of builtin and addon functionality and has become a > de facto standard for statistical research have been > sufficient reason for me to do all my computing using R. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
