The dirty secret of R is that all the power now comes from C++, the wrapper just has sexy viz. Come at me #RStats
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Replying to @PadreBallantyne
Well, by design, and called "Interface" a full fourty-five years ago (when using only Fortran). See Chambers (2020) and his books for more (and e.g. references in my presentations) with the famous Bell Labs drawing of the "Interface". #rstats dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/33863…

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Replying to @eddelbuettel @PadreBallantyne
The reference mentioned in my previous is e.g. on this slide from my useR! 2020 tutorial: #rstats
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So do you think it unusual that various users of the "interface" develop packages based on connecting back into the underlying base languages? Was that envisaged from the start??
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