R devel - Jan 2007 - Which programming paradigm is the most used for make R packages?

Hi wizards, does somebody know  Which programming paradigm is the most
used for make R packages ? Thanks in advance.

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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 the packages which 
ship with R itself (although some have a substantial amount of support 
code).

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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 language; as I've discovered, this means some
standard OO programming approaches don't carry over too naturally.  In
particular, functions don't really "belong" to classes.  R purists
would probably want that to say class-based 00 programming doesn't
fit, since R is function-based OO.

There is a package that  permits a more traditional ("class-based") OO
style; I think it's called R.oo.

Ross Boylan