From mark.vanderloo at gmail.com  Sat Sep 19 09:02:50 2015
From: mark.vanderloo at gmail.com (Mark van der Loo)
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 07:02:50 +0000
Subject: [Rd] is R syntax closed?
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> comment, some marker for 'command doesn't end at this line' etc.

That is not necessary since R supports multi-line commands without the need
for marking continuation.


> R syntax done and any extensions are forbidden?

R is maintained and extended by the R code team[1] who decide on the GNU R
project. Suggestions (or sometimes patches) are posted on this list and may
or may not be implemented (but please check that your suggestion/question
is indeed new by searching the list archive). R is maintained on an svn
repository and doesn't support pull requests in the same way git does.
Since R is free in the GNU sense you can always define your own local
version, see e.g. [2].

> i'm new to R

welcome, and have fun!

best,
Mark


[1] https://www.r-project.org/contributors.html
[2] https://github.com/radfordneal/pqR



Op za 19 sep. 2015 om 04:02 schreef Piotr Turski <piotr.turski at gmail.com>:

> hi,
>
> i'm new to R and i discovered that for years people are complaining
> about lacking of very basic and hopefully simple things, like multiline
> comment, some marker for 'command doesn't end at this line' etc.
>
> so my question is why some of those things are still not implemented? is
> it because of compatibility/policy reasons? is R syntax done and any
> extensions are forbidden? or it's simply because everyone is doing
> something more interesting?
> if it's the second case then do such pull requests/patches have a chance
> of being accepted?
>
> --
> regards,
> piotrek
>
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[Rd] is R syntax closed?
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