>On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:40:50 Georg Lehner wrote:
>>I was a little bit annoyed once, when I wanted to fix some problems
>>with analysis of Epi-info 6 and port it to Linux and was told that
>>they would not give out the source code, neither fix, and even "port"
>>to Epi2000 = Visual Basic + MS-Access databases (as I found out after
>>recently picking up on Epi-info again).
>>
>>There are some alternatives to Epi-info, in my opinion very
>>interesting ones. For the analysis part there exist
>>
>>a) R - a statistical super-power program which comes with Debian-Gnu
>> Linux, and with RedHat on the Powertool CD
>> R works for Unices, Windows and Macintosh, and has a whole
>> programming language included.
>> For social-statistics you use only a subset of the capabilities
>> but, who cares...
>> Graphics capabilities are great, run the demo.
>> Drawback is, that there are only very simple capabilities for
>> providing the data to analyse.
...
>>My intention (dream) is, to "replace" Epi-infos user friendly
>>interface by Tcl/Tk for portability reasons, and glue it together with
>>R. The database link could be something like geda from the
>>GNUe-project. An OIO-link should also be included.
Hi Georg,
That sounds really good! Why not just use OIO's browser and database interface?
Assuming that R can already access a database (e.g. PostgreSQL), all we need to do
then is to provide additional screens through the OIO to interface with routines
written in R (i.e. using a Zope to R adapter).
Although the Tcl/Tk interface is more powerful than the browser interface, I am not
convinced that the browser interface is inadequate for most, if not all, data analysis
functions.
Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
www.TxOutcome.Org
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
University of California, Los Angeles
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