You want it, you got it:
R's source (via CVS, but you can look at the tags) on the WWW, via:
http://anoncvs.r-project.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
Unfortunately, it's cvsweb and not viewcvs (couldn't easily figure out
how to use the tags to find 1.8.0's branch, for example)
"Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at myway.com> writes:
> In the Lua language they have put the entire source on the net in
> such a way that you can easily browse it. Go to:
>
> http://www.lua.org/source/5.0/
>
> to see what I mean.
>
> One of the nice things about R is that if you want more info on
> a function than in the help page you can just type the name of
> the function at the R prompt and you get its source, at least if
> it itself was written in R. Methods complicate this a bit but its
> still relatively easy to get the source.
>
> Unfortunately, for someone trying to find out what a function
> does, the real work may be done in C in which case you come to a
> dead end. Admittedly its possible to get the source but
> this requires a bit of work (downloading large files, figuring
> out rsync) and some hunting around.
>
> If the R source were placed on the net in a similar fashion to Lua
> I think this would make it more accessible and help people help
> themselves by making it easier to answer many questions
> themselves that they currently have to go to rhelp for.
>
>
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