On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Judith Flores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >> I am very new to Python and I have long R scripts that I would like to >> run under the Python Interpreter.
> But I'd like to thank you for pointing me at R! R is very powerful. I found it a bit opaque at first. You will probably want a book :-) You might be interested in these notes, which basically tell how to use R to do first-semester college statistics: http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/stories/00019.html >> some of the the documentation regarding the RPy module, I have not had any luck with RPy myself though presumably others have more success. The r() function might let you execute your scripts: http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy/doc/rpy_html/Miscellaneous.html#Miscellaneous > It sounds like you could do this by just creating the scripts in vanilla > Python then running the R scripts under R itself from Python usiing > os.system or the Subprocess module. I think that is probably the easiest approach if you can pass the script parameters on the command line. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
