From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87y58pplcp.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87fvuwgsv0.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <075751cf-97a3-4d01-8fb1-4ffbc0180f3f@googlegroups.com> <878v0oxfdw.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375203320 2134 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 16:55:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:55:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 18:55:24 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4DCk-0002uA-T6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:55:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4DCk-0007FZ-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:55:22 -0400 X-Received: by 10.68.107.1 with SMTP id gy1mr2731273pbb.3.1375203208355; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:53:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.74.130 with SMTP id t2mr460690obv.5.1375203208033; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!qx7no1405913pbc.1!news-out.google.com!rn2ni1241pbc.1!nntp.google.com!qx7no1405909pbc.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.34.89; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.34.89 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:53:28 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200294 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92561 Archived-At: On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:04:06 PM UTC+5:30, Phil Lord wrote: > Emanuel Berg writes: > > What is R? > > A programming language designed for doing stats. It's a really, really >> bizarre language which messes your head up, but is perfect for stats. > > And, yes, there is an emacs package for it. Very good too! > > http://ess.r-project.org/ Also worth mentioning -- and theres babel, part of org-mode, part of (of-course) emacs with which one can do some things like piping shell/python -> elisp -> R very neatly http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#meta-programming-language