Re: Native support for GNU R

[yves]

I read that you can provide support (in Perl 6) for most languages that  
parsers have been written for. As it appears to me, however, the languages  
that you are mainly interested in are substitutes (competitors) to Perl.  
Also, you might include languages that are complementary to Perl. I  
figure, a particularly interesting complement would be GNU R. First, it  
enhances the capabilities of Perl in the way its name suggests (being a  
practical extracting and report language). Secondly, it is maintained by  
an army of statisticians (and programmers) to comprise the  
state--of--the--art techniques. And thirdly, it is published under the GPL  
and written in C.

Native support for R (inside Perl 6) would be interesting for all persons  
who have to conduct specific data analyses regularly (Perl would collect  
the data and extract the items to be analyzed, R would analyze them, Perl  
would report), for persons who have to conduct single analyses where the  
data extraction is particularly demanding, and for persons who conduct  
single analyses comprising huge numbers of tests which can abstracted  
rather well.

Moreover, if I could wish something to be realized in Perl 6, it would be  
native support for arithmetic vector/matrix operations, as provided by GNU  
R (or, ideally, as in J and APL). I do not know, to which degree this is  
already meant to be done, though.

Thanks for your work, anyway,
Yves.
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