From h.wickham at gmail.com  Fri Aug  5 19:24:03 2016
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 12:24:03 -0500
Subject: [Rd] What happened to Ross Ihaka's proposal for a Common Lisp
 based R successor?
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No.

Hadley

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Kenny Bell <kmbell56 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it conceivable that Julia could be ported to use R syntax in a way that
> would allow the vastly larger numbers of R programmers to seamlessly switch?
> Or equivalently, could an iteration of R itself do this?
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 9:00 AM Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> When it was being actively worked on, it had the advantage of existing.
>>
>> Hadley
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Kenny Bell <kmbell56 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Why is the described system preferable to Julia?
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 4:50 AM peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On 05 Aug 2016, at 06:41 , Andrew Judson <ajskim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I read this paper
>> >> > <https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf>
>> >> > and
>> >> > haven't been able to find out what happened - I have seen some
>> >> > sporadic
>> >> > mention in message groups but nothing definitive. Does anyone know?
>> >>
>> >> Presumably Ross does...
>> >>
>> >> You get a hint if you go one level up and look for the newest file:
>> >>
>> >> https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/New-System.pdf
>> >>
>> >>
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[Rd] What happened to Ross Ihaka's proposal for a Common Lisp based R successor?
Hadley Wickham