My current bioinformatics textbook uses R for all its coding examples, and since I wanted to use python/biopython for my course, I tried to install the R-python interface. As is often the case with such things, it turned out to be far from self-contained, and I needed a whole bunch of libraries I didn't have (this was on OS X 10.4). Since I am impatient and low on time, I gave up after about 1/2 hour, since there is a very nice R.app for OS X available already and I didn't have any specific connection in mind. However, it looks like I will often have statistics grad students in that course and they might use such an interface. So I will give another vote in favor of getting R into sage. Currently I think sage should appeal to everyone in math except perhaps math ed and stats folks, and having R included would win over the stats people.
-Marshall Hampton On Apr 5, 11:39 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding the review, which mentions the stats package R, a lot of people have > written me off list about creating an interface to R. Note that there > has been a Python <--> R > interface since before SAGE was ever written: > > http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ > > I haven't used it, but imagine it would be easy to install into SAGE. > (??) If somebody > investigates, please post their experiences. > > William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
