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From: @dutky @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Steve Dutky)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 15:40:31 -0500
Subject: [Rd] standard naming for components of R data structures
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Thank you: the R Language Definition is very helpful.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 3:18 PM Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you just need something on pen and paper?
> (In which case, I don't see why it needs to be "standard").
>
> Or do you need something that can be used with bison/yacc/cup/etc to
> produce a parser?
>
> On a side note, I would say that the R Language Definition is the
> "standard" way.
> But I do recognize that this has a different flavour to modern
> language implementation *theory*.
>
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 5:17 AM Steve Dutky <sdutky at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I need to write some documentation:
> >
> > I'm looking for a standard, consistent way of referring  to the
> components
> > and attributes of R data structures.   Googling and Stackoverflow yield a
> > variety of github sites that do not seem to be particularly
> authoritative.
> >
> > I was hoping to find a BNF/ABNF grammar for R.
> >
> > I've looked at the output of bison -v ./R-3.6.2/src/main/gram.y but it
> does
> > not appear helpful.
> >
> > I appreciate any suggestions for where to look or what to do.
> >
> > Thanks, Steve
> >
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> >
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[Rd] standard naming for components of R data structures
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