similar to: Electronic copy of Ihaka and Gentleman (1996)?

In their paper, "Lexical Scope and Statistical Computing", the authors ( Gentleman and Ihaka ) go to great length explaining why R's use of lexical scoping creates advantages when doing statistical computations. If anyone has or is familiar with this paper, could they provide the main program code for how the "newton" function would be called in their example on page 500

It does look like Gentleman and Ihaka not only lied to the New York Times, but also to the New Zealand Herald and who knows who else. This is disgusting. The R programming language is the S programming language, and Gentleman and Ihaka are not the ones who designed it. http://thenewyorktimesissloppy.blogspot.com/

Members of R-devel may be interested in the special Sept. 2000 issue of J. of Comp. and Graph. Statist. http://www.amstat.org/publications/asajournals.html#jcgs on Systems and Languages. It features two articles by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka on "Java and Dylan" and "Lexical Scope and Statistical Computing", an article by Paul Murrell and Ross Ihaka on "An

This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if the recommended citation was an article in a recognised journal or from a recognised publisher. I use R in work leading to publications often, and I strongly want to give the R core team credit for their work. However I find that I can't persuade my biological collaborators to include the current R citation (below) in their

Hello all, There is currently a (very !) lively discussions happening around the web, surrounding the following topics: 1) Is R efficient? (scripting wise, and performance wise) 2) Should R be written from scratch? 3) What should be the license of R (if it was made a new)? Very serious people have taken part in the debates so far. I hope to let you know of the places I came by, so you might be

Greetings all, This isn't a request for help, but I thought the following article from the New York Times would be of interest to you all. Enjoy! Adam *Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power* By ASHLEE VANCE Published ONLINE: January 6, 2009 URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html A version of this article appeared in print edition on

I know that this general question has been asked before, but I have encountered a picky reviewer. In the 'standard' reference for R: R. Gentleman and R. Ihaka (1997). "The R language", In Proceedings of the 28th Symposium on the Interface, L. Billard and N. Fisher Eds. The Interface Foundation of North America. is there a geographical location for the publisher and perhaps

I must admit to being baffled by this. When I type "R" I get R : Copyright 1997, Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka Version 0.50 Beta (April 1, 1997) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type "license()" for details. > gc() Garbage collection ... 150427 cons cells free (75%) 1823k

Dear help I have been attenpting to compile R0.49 on both of these unix machines and have had no compilation errors but core dumps at run time. The HP UX box start out by putting up a graphics window and then crashing with the following error message before giving the prompt R : Copyright 1997, Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka Version 0.49 Beta (April 23, 1997) R is free software and

Hi, I'm a beginner of R. I find it absoluty fantastic, flexible and very extensible. For the moment only a curiosity.. Why the name R? (are they perhaps the initials of Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka?, or is the name correlated with S language?) Sorry for my poor question but I am very curious Thank in advance Paolo C.

Hi, All: I encountered problems running "pdflatex wrapper.tex", as suggested on "www.r-project.org" -> Newsletter -> (near the bottom of the page). After 220 lines of seemingly successful processing, I got an error copied below. I hit <enter> a few times, and the "pdflatex" finished, apparently successfully. Comments? Thanks,

Dear List, this may be a little off-topic, but I failed to obtain the "mother of R"-reference through a couple of library services... Maybe someone can provide me with a PDF? Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman. R: A language for data analysis and graphics. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 5(3):299-314, 1996 Helmut Schuetz Biokinet GmbH A-1170 Vienna Tel +43(0)1

Ross Ihaka wrote to Tom Cook (who CCed it to me): > [ regarding "density" and "angle" for polygon hatching ] > > I have just found a student volunteer to do this. I will > know more about how long this will take in about a week. (Its not a > huge task, but the student make take while to up to speed on graphics.) Ross: You move fast! However, I'm in

In another thread on this list, various wild allegations have been made, relating to the New York Times article on R. I object both to the subject line and to the content of several of the messages, and will not repeat or quote any of that content. It smacks to me of mischief making. Discussion has centered around the following quote from the NY Times article: ?According to them, the

Attached is an updated version of the FAQ, to be released right after 0.50 is out. Please have a look, and let me know where improvements are needed. Thanks, -k ******************************************* R FAQ Kurt Hornik v0.1-0, 1997/04/16 This document contains answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about R. Feedback is welcome.

Martin Your revisions to my S--R compatability code suggest that tempfile() is in R after 0.49. I don't find that to be the case. It requires code from Friedrich Leisch which still has to be added as of 0.50 alpha3. Paul _______ R : Copyright 1997, Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka Version 0.50 Alpha-3 (August 8, 1997) > exists("tempfile", mode = 'function') [1] FALSE >

A much updated R FAQ is now available at the URL http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html The plain text version is appended below. -k ***************************************************************************** * Kurt Hornik * * * Dept of Statistics TU Wien * tel: +43 (1) 58801-4542 * * Wiedner Hauptstr

A much updated R FAQ is now available at the URL http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html The plain text version is appended below. -k ***************************************************************************** * Kurt Hornik * * * Dept of Statistics TU Wien * tel: +43 (1) 58801-4542 * * Wiedner Hauptstr

Hola, ¿qué tal? Richard A. Becker tiene un artículo, A Brief History of S, que habla de la protohistoria de S y en el que se lee "S grew up in 1975-1976 in the statistics research departments at Bell Laboratories". Y le sigue la pista a S hasta el 93. R es una reimplementación de S. Ross Ihaka habla de sus primeros días en

Why does parse not work below and why does assigning it crash R? Paul ________ $ R R : Copyright 1997, Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka Version 0.50 Alpha-3 (August 8, 1997) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type "license()" for details. > system("date \'+%Y %m %d %H %M %S\'",