Hmm, if all you are interested is reading/writing Excel spreadsheets from R, there are much lighter and easier ways of doing it, than hooking up with openoffice. The Perl people have had Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadsheet::WriteExcel for years (and they work quite well, personal experience). Those are tiny (a couple of Mb's?) compared to the size of openoffice.
HTL Leonard Mada wrote: > Dear members of the R Development Team, > > I am looking for people with a deep understanding of R internals to > assist in bridging R to OpenOffice. > > While R is a state of the art statistical environment, less experienced > users often find it difficult to work with R. Therefore, I believe that > a bridge between R and a spreadsheet program will make this transition > less painful. I sincerely believe that this will benefit both the R > community as well as the potential new users. > > OpenOffice is an open-source office suite that includes a spreadsheet > program (Calc). > > OpenOffice.org (OOo) is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2007 > initiative sponsored by Google and one of the proposed projects involves > the creation of an add-on component that allows an OOo Calc user to let > the R environment do calculations on data from Calc cells and put the > results into the spreadsheet again. A brief description can be found on > the OOo Summer of Code wiki page > (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2007). > > Two students have already shown interest in this project (see the OOo > mailing list, > http://sc.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev&from=2007-03-01&to=2007-03-31&by=date&first=21&selectedPage=2, > > the "Summer of Code: R and Calc" thread). > > While mentoring is already available from a member of the OpenOffice > team (I will try to offer a helping hand on statistics and R-syntax, but > NOT the coding part itself), I feel that we still need someone with > R-core expertise. I am aware of various existing packages (rcom, RDCOM) > and the availability of various online-informations (like > http://developer.r-project.org/embedded.html), however more specific > questions may arise in the future, especially as this embedding should > be platform-independent, and I would welcome any help from the R-core > team members. > > I am looking forward to hear from you and hope that this project will be > a great success. I would like to thank you in advance for your effort. > > Sincerely, > > Leonard Mada > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel