Dear All, After spending 3 long days attempting to interface Fortran with R--having spent 1 week sifting through R-help and the horrific official documentation--I cannot emphasize in words the importance of consulting 1 and-only 1 reference: Venables, W.N., B.D. Ripley, S Programming. Springer, New York, 2000. My goodness gracious, I should have started with that book first, I would have saved an incredible amount of time. My interface to a rather long library subroutine was done and tested in less than 30 minutes! My experience is posted in the hope that it will save someone TIME (the most precious of anything in the universe) I hope an up-to-date and expanded version of that fabulous book is also in the works. /Livin La Vida Loca
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2 messages · DivineSAAM@aol.com, Brian Ripley
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 DivineSAAM at aol.com wrote:
After spending 3 long days attempting to interface Fortran with R--having spent 1 week sifting through R-help and the horrific official documentation--I cannot emphasize in words the importance of consulting 1 and-only 1 reference: Venables, W.N., B.D. Ripley, S Programming. Springer, New York, 2000. My goodness gracious, I should have started with that book first, I would have saved an incredible amount of time. My interface to a rather long library subroutine was done and tested in less than 30 minutes! My experience is posted in the hope that it will save someone TIME (the most precious of anything in the universe) I hope an up-to-date and expanded version of that fabulous book is also in the works.
We have started work on a second edition but don't expect to see it until 2005.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk 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