Re: [GENERAL] PL/R etc.

2013-05-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Merlin Moncure wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Merlin Moncure wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I don't know whether anybody active on the list has R (and in particular PL/R) experience, but just in case... :-) i) Something l

Re: [GENERAL] PL/R etc.

2013-05-10 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Merlin Moncure wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd >> wrote: >>> >>> I don't know whether anybody active on the list has R (and in particular >>> PL/R) experience, but just in case... :-) >>> >>> i) Somethin

Re: [GENERAL] PL/R etc.

2013-05-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Merlin Moncure wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I don't know whether anybody active on the list has R (and in particular PL/R) experience, but just in case... :-) i) Something like APL can operate on an array with minimal regard for index order, i.e. operation

Re: [GENERAL] PL/R etc.

2013-05-10 Thread Joe Conway
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/2013 06:33 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > you have full access to sql within the pl/r function, so nothing > is keeping you from paging data into the frame via a cursor, but > that only helps so much. I have thought about implementing the paging

Re: [GENERAL] PL/R etc.

2013-05-10 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I don't know whether anybody active on the list has R (and in particular > PL/R) experience, but just in case... :-) > > i) Something like APL can operate on an array with minimal regard for > index order, i.e. operations across the arr

[GENERAL] PL/R etc.

2013-05-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
I don't know whether anybody active on the list has R (and in particular PL/R) experience, but just in case... :-) i) Something like APL can operate on an array with minimal regard for index order, i.e. operations across the array are as easily-expressed and as efficient as operations down t