Message-ID: <5810595588.20060209105828@eimb.ru>
Date: 2006-02-09T07:58:28Z
From: Vladimir Eremeev
Subject: envi clone in R
In-Reply-To: <43EA33CF.3080605@lancaster.ac.uk>
Dear Barry,
Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 9:09:19 PM, you wrote:
BR> Wladimir Eremeev wrote:
>> 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