Dear members of the R Development Team, I am looking for people with a deep understanding of R internals to assist in bridging R to OpenOffice.
While R is a state of the art statistical environment, less experienced users often find it difficult to work with R. Therefore, I believe that a bridge between R and a spreadsheet program will make this transition less painful. I sincerely believe that this will benefit both the R community as well as the potential new users. OpenOffice is an open-source office suite that includes a spreadsheet program (Calc). OpenOffice.org (OOo) is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2007 initiative sponsored by Google and one of the proposed projects involves the creation of an add-on component that allows an OOo Calc user to let the R environment do calculations on data from Calc cells and put the results into the spreadsheet again. A brief description can be found on the OOo Summer of Code wiki page (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2007). Two students have already shown interest in this project (see the OOo mailing list, http://sc.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev&from=2007-03-01&to=2007-03-31&by=date&first=21&selectedPage=2, the "Summer of Code: R and Calc" thread). While mentoring is already available from a member of the OpenOffice team (I will try to offer a helping hand on statistics and R-syntax, but NOT the coding part itself), I feel that we still need someone with R-core expertise. I am aware of various existing packages (rcom, RDCOM) and the availability of various online-informations (like http://developer.r-project.org/embedded.html), however more specific questions may arise in the future, especially as this embedding should be platform-independent, and I would welcome any help from the R-core team members. I am looking forward to hear from you and hope that this project will be a great success. I would like to thank you in advance for your effort. Sincerely, Leonard Mada ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
