[ESS] need help locating an old thread

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Fri Mar 11 23:17:38 CET 2011


On 02/10/11 01:24 PM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
>
> Yes, but I think I see now. It would allow you to pass objects back and
> forth intelligently such as data frames, graphics, packages, etc. Sort
> of a CORBA translation layer between elisp and R. If it could
> be written more simply than ESS[R], then it might have a chance. I bet
> it would make things like R2WinBUGS much easier.
>
> Since we are on the subject, I wonder what it would take to compile R
> into emacs directly; sort of like what has been done in BRUGS and/or
> TeXmacs. Then you would have a rich grammar of both R and elisp
> functions at your disposal (or R based on elisp primitives I suppose).
> SXEmacs has the ability to do stuff like that, but I have never used it
> since it is Linux only. Maybe I'll give it a try as we migrate to Linux.
>
> Rodney

By the way, if anyone cares, BRugs is now available on Linux which
steals much of the thunder from our ambitious plans.  See
http://www.openbugs.info/w/UserContributedCode?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=BRugs_0.6-1.tar.gz

It's not on CRAN yet, but expect it RSN.

Rodney



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