Domain-Specific Languages in R: Advanced Statistical Programming

© Thomas Mailund 2018

Thomas MailundDomain-Specific Languages in Rhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3588-1_1

1. Introduction

Thomas Mailund¹ 

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Aarhus N, Staden København, Denmark

 

This book introduces embedded domain-specific languages in R. The term domain-specific languages, or DSL, refers to programming languages specialized for a particular purpose, as opposed to general-purpose programming languages. Domain-specific languages ideally give you a precise way of specifying tasks you want to do and goals you want to achieve, within a specific context. Regular expressions are one example of a domain-specific language, where you have a specialized notation to express patterns of text. You can use this domain-specific language to define text strings ...