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From: Warnes, Gregory R
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:52 AM
To: 'r-packages'; 'python-announce '; 'rsoap-talk'; 'Dan Nathan'; 'RPy
List'
Subject: Announce: RPy version 0.3.3
RPy Version 0.3.3 is now available from the RPy home page at
http://rpy.sf.net.
What is RPy?
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RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python (http://www.python.org) interface
to the R environment for statistical data analysis and graphics
(http://www.r-project.org). RPy can manages translation between python
and R formats for all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R
functions (including the graphic functions). All errors from the R
language are converted to proper Python exceptions. All module installed
on the R system are available from Python.
Consequently, RPy allows Python programmers to easily add advanced
statistical functionality to Python programs. It allows R programmers the
ability to use Python to control R computations and to interface them with
other systems. Examples include RSOAP
(http://www.analytics.washington.edu/Zope/projects/RSOAP), RSessionDA
(http://www.analytics.washington.edu/Zope/projects/RSOAP), and RStatServer
(http://www.analytics.washington.edu/Zope/projects/RStatServer). These
products, which make heavy use of RPy have been used in a production
environments for two years.
New features in 0.3.3
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o Now works with R 1.8.X
o Windows version merged into the Unix source tree
o Added lcall() method for calling R functions using a list of (name,
value) pairs for the parameters. This is works around the python
(mis-)feature of using unordered python dictionaries for named
parameters, resulting in the loss of order for named parameters.
o All reported bugs have been fixed.
o New maintainer: Gregory R. Warnes <gregory_r_warnes at groton.pfizer.com>
For more information visit the RPy home page at http://rpy.sf.net, or the
RPy SourceForge project page at http://www.sf.net/projects/rpy.