Parrot + R

[Will Coleda]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Jay Emerson <jayemerson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I should note that this is really, really experimental, sort of
> proof-of-concept.  It isn't an effort intended to duplicate or replace
> the R Project... for reasons (beyond the scope of this email) that
> would be almost impossible.  A minimalist implementation would be
> pretty cool, though, and a sense of humor is essential.
>
> I'll be working fairly hard on this over the next month and will
> likely post "how-to" question on the Parrot users list.  Please
> forgive me in advance for 'stupid questions' -- but this may be
> necessary.  I find myself spinning my wheels on little things, and
> even if I vaguely remember something in the docs I can't always find
> it or it isn't quite what I need.
>
> Like: in NQP, how do I find the length of @anarray ?  Does the answer
> to this require knowledge of the type of the array (fixed versus
> resizable, integer versus float)?

+ at anarray

> Many thanks, and I hope at least having an additional person trying to
> build a language will provide some helpful feedback.
>
> Jay
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan at leto.net> wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I have attached some slides that Jay Emerson has sent me that relate to
>> building a new implementation of R on top of Parrot.
>>
>> This is exciting stuff!
>>
>> He tells me that the 'Q' language idea has been abandoned and currently they
>> are coming up with Not Quite R. Doesn't that feel familiar?
>>
>> Please consider helping this effort if you are looking for something to hack
>> on. I will post more details when there is a publicly available code repo.
>>
>> Duke
>>
>>
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>
>
>
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> John W. Emerson (Jay)
> Associate Professor of Statistics
> Department of Statistics
> Yale University
> http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay
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Will "Coke" Coleda