envi clone in R

Dear Barry,

Hello all,

  Research Systems (www.rsinc.com) have developed and distributes the language IDL,
  and the GIS ENVI, written in IDL.

BR>   I find it hard to believe they wrote it all in IDL! I'm guessing its
BR> probably scriptable in IDL, but underneath its written in something
BR> else... I could be wrong though!

Well, not in IDL completely, I think, there is also C and Fortran code
underneath.

  To my oppinion, R language is superior, compared to IDL, in all aspects.
  However, ENVI is the rather convenient and feature rich tool.

By the way, even the interface to an external code is implemented in R
much more conveniently, compared to IDL.
It took me several hours to make IDL to call my C functions from DLL.
I have read the documentation carefully 2 or 3 times...

And I have done the same task in R in several minutes.

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Best regards,
Wladimir                mailto:wl at eimb.ru