[R] A general question: Is language S a component part of R?

[Suzen, Mehmet]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, November 5, 2012, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
>> On 06/11/12 09:40, Iurie Malai wrote:
>>
>>> So, R (as a language) can be viewed as an extended S language (S + some
>>> improvements)? And the R environment includes this (extended) language +
>>> extensions?
>>>

R has lots of similarities but it isn't "just" extended S!!! it has
many better features grammatically.
R packaging to low level language integration being small set of
differences. I recommend you to
read the R book by the inventor of S, John Chambers, (ACM award
recipient) to understand
the fundamental differences:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Software-Data-Analysis-Prt
ogramming-Statistics/dp/0387759352

S/S+ is a commercial product. R community and academics provides much
larger and high
quality/reliable open source alternative to this and yet let anyone
use it for free, as in freedom,
even if you are nasty person, you are allowed to practice this.

>>
>> Are others getting as sick of this silly, pedantic and completely
>> irrelevant pseudo-scholasticism as I am?
>>

What did you contribute to world accept making toxic comments on the list of
one of the largest open source academic software on the planet?

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