Dear all,
to my knowledge, there is no native interface to GNU R in Perl 5. Apparently, having such an interface saves some pain in statistical analyses. My current solution to extend Perl towards R is to start an R process, and to feed its stdin to produce the stuff I want. However, starting R takes some time, communicating with it via pipes is not perfectly user--friendly, and interpreting the results would be simplified under a native interface, too. I guess there would be quite a number of persons interested in an interface to a core of R functions, at least.
Of course, since R is written in C, an extension this way generally is possible, but I like to communicate with R in R language.
Yves.
