Computer algebra in R - would that be an idea??
Ayal Pinkus <apinkus at xs4all.nl> writes:
Hi,
R builds fine under Windows (though you need to pay attention to the details which are in the (binary) distribution in the pdf files, in particular: `R Installation and Administration Manual', a html copy is also on the website; and the README* and INSTALL files in src/gnuwin32/ ). These details look tedious at first, and you may have to install a few things, but it keeps the sources closely tied between Windoze and the Unixish operating systems on which many of us prefer to develop.
Ok. Unfortunately I work on a Mac OS X at home (I have access to Windows, MS DevStudio at work but want to keep work and hobby separate). I do work with Xcode (have to delve deeper in to Cocoa still though). Can integration also be done on Mac OS X? If I understood correctly you go the COM route for integration on Windows?
Whoa! Be careful there, there is no collective "you"; this is a mailing list. S?ren, Dirk, Gabor, and I are four quite distinct people, and at least Dirk and I are Linux people who would rather not touch COM... Especially not when there's a perfectly fine library embedding method available. This approach usually works across all platforms although Windows and Macs tend to require a few extra twists. (I'm not up to speed on Macs. I gather that OS X managed to mess up dynamic linking somewhat but I believe it has all been sorted. You should probably have a peek at the MacOSX FAQ at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html and the page http://www.economia.unimi.it/R)
CrystalSpace is a 3d engine that has a COM simulation layer for Unix- style platforms I think (last time I looked was a few years back). It would essentially be a thin layer to implementations of abstract classes. I did download R for Mac OS X. It is quite a nice package! I wish I had looked at it earlier. You did a very good job on the user interface.
...and Stefano and Simon who were the main players in this development are yet another different "you".
Allow me to add that this sounds very exciting.
I agree! I am working on a Java port at the moment. I will try to make some time later this evening or perhaps somewhere this week.
Sounds good. I wish I had more time for this, but there's a deadline approaching...
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