R binaries, platform independent and Design of Experiments
Dear Rexpert, I would like to thank those who spend time answering my email on the burning of a CD with all R binary files for Windows and Linux. I have tried a couple of suggestions but have not been successful. I will pass these suggestions to our system administrator and I am sure that he can sort them out. I hope that the future version of R will be written in Java so that it is platform independent. This means there will be a single binary file for each new version of R. At the moment there are files for Windows, Mac OS, Fedora 1, 2, 3, 4, SUSE 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, etc. I also hope that the future of version of R include more DOE (Design of Experiments) modules. R will be more useful if it is not only a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, but also for design of experiments. I am toying with the idea of adding to R some modules of my Gendex DOE toolkit (http://designcomputing.net/gendex/). I learn from an Rexpert that the first step for this exercise is to convert my java code to C++. As I do not know C++ (and life is short) please let me know whether there is an alternative way without this conversion and whether you can actively help me in this exercise. Regards,
Nam-Ky Nguyen, Senior Lecturer School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351 Australia nkn at turing.une.edu.au Tel: +612 6773 2763 http://turing.une.edu.au/~nkn Fax: +612 6773 3312 Please convert Word files into PDF files before sending them to me. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html