From istazahn at gmail.com  Fri Aug  5 19:39:54 2016
From: istazahn at gmail.com (Ista Zahn)
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 13:39:54 -0400
Subject: [Rd] What happened to Ross Ihaka's proposal for a Common Lisp
 based R successor?
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But you can easily fall back to R from within Julia; see
http://juliastats.github.io/RCall.jl/latest/

On Aug 5, 2016 1:27 PM, "Hadley Wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> >> >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> >> >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> >> >> Phone: (+45)38153501
> >> >> Office: A 4.23
> >> >> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
> >> >>
> >> >> ______________________________________________
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> >> >>
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[Rd] What happened to Ross Ihaka's proposal for a Common Lisp based R successor?
Ista Zahn