I beieve Leonard Mada intended to contact R-core, from his penultimate para (our address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I only see any point in discussing this on R-devel if some non-R-core-developer wishes to volunteer to help -- otherwise R-core will discuss this.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Roger Bivand wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> Hmm, if all you are interested is reading/writing Excel spreadsheets >> from R, there are much lighter and easier ways of doing it, than >> hooking up with openoffice. The Perl people have had >> Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadsheet::WriteExcel for years (and >> they work quite well, personal experience). Those are tiny >> (a couple of Mb's?) compared to the size of openoffice. > > I don't think this is the problem here - the proposal says: "Create an > add-on component that allows a Calc user to let the R environment do > calculations on data from Calc cells and put the results into the > spreadsheet again". It feels much more like embedding R in the OO > spreadsheet and/or elsewhere, which would be similar to using DCOM in > Excel. There would also be questions about how tightly integrated an > embedded R should be, how functionality would be provided and documented, > and how such a setup ought to be administered and maintained. > > As RExcel, the structure depends crucially on having joint expertise in > place to write and maintain the R script glue (dialogues) to provide the > functionality being added to Calc. Typically, this would be something an > organisation of some size might need, but it would be unlikely to be a GUI > for novice R users unwilling to scale the learning curve (a steep learning > curve, of course, means learn a lot in a short time, hence a good thing!). > > Roger > >> >> HTL >> >> Leonard Mada wrote: >>> 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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
