%0 Conference Paper %1 citeulike:13934746 %A Morandat, Floréal %A Hill, Brandon G. %A Osvald, Leo %A Vitek, Jan %B ECOOP'12: 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 25 %D 2012 %K r %T Evaluating the Design of the R Language %U http://r.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ecoop12-slides.pdf %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.

@inproceedings{citeulike:13934746, 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 = {2019-06-18T20:47:03.000+0200}, author = {Morandat, Flor\'{e}al and Hill, Brandon G. and Osvald, Leo and Vitek, Jan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ccda8c36781cb0d319f30d4562a34453/alexv}, booktitle = {ECOOP'12: 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 25}, citeulike-article-id = {13934746}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://r.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ecoop12-slides.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://r.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ecoop12.pdf}, interhash = {8da2130ab6b831e3b4b51c020cad0c29}, intrahash = {ccda8c36781cb0d319f30d4562a34453}, keywords = {r}, location = {Bejing, China}, posted-at = {2016-02-17 22:45:43}, priority = {5}, timestamp = {2019-06-18T20:47:03.000+0200}, title = {{Evaluating the Design of the R Language}}, url = {http://r.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ecoop12-slides.pdf}, year = 2012 }