Hi, I would like to potentially become involved with this project. I am still learning about R-project internals but I have been digging around a lot in the internal R-code. That said, I am initimately familiar with OOo since I was involved as a volunteer for that project previously. I wrote some of the OOo bridge code that allows Linux PPC, and Mac PPC to make UNO calls (translates the abi calling conventions from C++ to uno and then from uno back to C++ on the fly) and also wrote their first spellchecker which used the UNO interface. Similar uno bridges exist for Java and python. I don't think there is a bridge from uno to fortran and back but since the bulk of internal R code is C and that R itself can be built as a shared library, that should not really be an issue.
As I remember, I think someone has built an interface from Gnumeric to R if I am not mistaken. That project if it is still alive might provide a nice model of how to interface from a spreadsheet to R without lots of GUI front end stuff being needed. As I remember, it just allowed a number of advanced features from R to be used from within GNumeric (just as if you added an analysis toolpack to Excel) It would be nice for example to have a list of extended functions that Calc can invoke that are actually run in R and returned to Calc's cells. I can think of many matrix functions such as finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors that Calc can not easily do now but that would extend Calc's usefulness as a linear model learning tool. Anyway, my 2 cents. As I am not a member of R-core, I would vote that the discussion concerning this project stay on this list or failing that, that interested people CC-me directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks, Kevin On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Sean Davis wrote: >> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 09:20, Stefan Zimmermann wrote: >> >>> Still didn't get the point, or missed the topic ? >>> >> >> I had gotten the point, yes--just trying to be helpful. I'm sorry >> it wasn't >> taken as such. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
