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R Environments, Scoping, and Evaluation With Some Applications

Ross Ihaka

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics2026https://doi.org/10.1111/anzs.70044article
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This paper aims to expose one of R 's important features that seems to be little‐known by most users. The particular feature is language scoping, which R inherits from languages like Algol60 and Scheme . Although the feature is comparatively little known, it is quite important, and knowing about it can change the way that R is used. Rather than proceeding as a technical exposition, the content is presented as a series of examples. These are formatted (without continuation prompts) so that they are easy to copy and paste. The right way to read the paper is to copy the examples and experiment with them.

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@article{ross2026,
  title        = {{R Environments, Scoping, and Evaluation With Some Applications}},
  author       = {Ross Ihaka},
  journal      = {Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/anzs.70044},
}

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0.50

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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