Why might someone say R is *NOT* a programming language? [closed]
- by Tal Galili
I came by the following comment today on twitter "R is not a programming language, it's a statistics package with the GUI missing."
And I am wondering -
Why not?
What is "missing" in R to make it a "programming language" ?
Update: For the protocol, I am a big fan of R, use it daily, and support it's existence.
I now changed the name of this thread from "Why is R NOT a programming language?" to "Why might someone say R is NOT a programming language?" Which better reflects my motivation for this thread (which is, to know if R has any programmatical disadvantages that I might have not heard about).