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From: @purd|e@@ @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Abs Spurdle)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 09:34:23 +1300
Subject: [Rd] 
 Should CRAN accept packages with non-R code that transcompiles
 into R code?
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 12:49 PM jan Vitek <vitekj at icloud.com> wrote:

> Everything is possible. One can compile C++ into JavaScript.
>
> But why?
>
>
I would like to support Java style syntax for class definitions.
(Then it could transcompile into either S3 or S4).

And possibly change some other things while I'm at it.
Maybe, integers (rather than numerics) as defaults, and * for standard
matrix multiplication (and ** for R style vectorized multiplication).

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[Rd] Should CRAN accept packages with non-R code that transcompiles into R code?
Abs Spurdle