%0 Conference Paper %1 Morandat:2012:EDR %A Morandat, Floréal %A Hill, Brandon %A Osvald, Leo %A Vitek, Jan %B Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming %C Berlin, Heidelberg %D 2012 %I Springer-Verlag %K R Semantics %P 104--131 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-31057-7_6 %T Evaluating the Design of the R Language: Objects and Functions for Data Analysis %X R is a dynamic language for statistical computing that combines lazy functional features and object-oriented programming. This rather unlikely linguistic cocktail would probably never have been prepared by computer scientists, yet the language has become surprisingly popular. With millions of lines of R code available in repositories, we have an opportunity to evaluate the fundamental choices underlying the R language design. Using a combination of static and dynamic program analysis we assess the success of different language features. %@ 978-3-642-31056-0

@inproceedings{Morandat:2012:EDR, abstract = {R is a dynamic language for statistical computing that combines lazy functional features and object-oriented programming. This rather unlikely linguistic cocktail would probably never have been prepared by computer scientists, yet the language has become surprisingly popular. With millions of lines of R code available in repositories, we have an opportunity to evaluate the fundamental choices underlying the R language design. Using a combination of static and dynamic program analysis we assess the success of different language features.}, added-at = {2016-03-21T13:51:12.000+0100}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, author = {Morandat, Flor{\'e}al and Hill, Brandon and Osvald, Leo and Vitek, Jan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e4e655aada3b72025288c43d8168486a/gron}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming}, description = {Evaluating the design of the R language}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-31057-7_6}, interhash = {07efa1b61cccba5e5f0fe92640eaa226}, intrahash = {e4e655aada3b72025288c43d8168486a}, isbn = {978-3-642-31056-0}, keywords = {R Semantics}, location = {Beijing, China}, numpages = {28}, pages = {104--131}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, series = {ECOOP'12}, timestamp = {2016-03-21T13:51:12.000+0100}, title = {Evaluating the Design of the R Language: Objects and Functions for Data Analysis}, year = 2012 }