From owner-cvs-ports Mon May 4 13:32:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18540 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 13:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-ports) Received: from mph124.rh.psu.edu (mph@MPH124.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18243; Mon, 4 May 1998 13:31:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@mph124.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by mph124.rh.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25359; Mon, 4 May 1998 16:31:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mph) Message-ID: <19980504163118.A25290@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 16:31:18 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: Steve Kargl Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/math/r - Imported sources Mail-Followup-To: Steve Kargl , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199805041753.KAA26756@freefall.freebsd.org> <199805042027.NAA22519@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805042027.NAA22519@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>; from Steve Kargl on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 01:27:32PM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 01:27:32PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > If this is a programming language similar to Fortran, > then shouldn't this be be under ports/lang? I will direct you to the message I posted to ports@freebsd.org yesterday, asking if anyone had an opinion one way or another, and the lack of responses I got. I guess everyone's busy arguing about ijb. My thinking is that Matlab is also used for mathematical programming, but we put octave in math. R is, as far as I saw, purely intended for doing math, whereas Fortran is a general purpose language, and putting it in math makes no more sense than putting it in astro, cad, or biology. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349.