On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> Karl-Dieter Crisman <kcrisman at gmail.com> writes:
>> Rewriting R, on the other hand, makes no sense; the sheer number of
>> *quality* user-contributed packages to R is one of its strongest
>> suits, one that could never be replicated. ?(In fact, it's why so many
>> people are ditching the proprietary guys for R. ?There are at least
>> FOUR companies which intend to eventually make a profit supporting or
>> adding on to R in some fashion.)
>
> I suspect that you're right that rewriting R would be silly, but this
> isn't really an argument for that statement. After all, if I wrote a
> lisp-hosted implementation of the core of R, all the excellent
> user-contributed packages would theoretically run just fine on my
> implementation too...
What would be nice, in my opinion, is a interactive compiled R-like
/ Lisp-Stat like system for data analysis, based on common lisp, using
packages to support R-like features.
I've been slowly working on that for a few years now, actually had
basic computation / data / display functionalities done (including
limited conditional plot tools, i.e. "lattice graphics") but it's
going slow. (personal reasons - major family health crisis that I'm
only now recovering from).
If people are interested, see my github repo's which point in the
direction I'm heading. I'd be interested in conversing with folks
interesting in doing that.
I'm not a de-novo hacker, I'm a package integrator.
Obviously.
best,
-tony
blindglobe at gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
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