[Rd] R and Java ? [forwarded]

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Martin Maechler wrote:

> This is of broader interest,
> and I'm not the expert.. 
> 
> ------- start of forwarded message -------
> From: Cheryl J Fernandes <cferna3@uic.edu>
> To: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re R and Java
> Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 13:54:35 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> 
> Hi Martin,
>     I'm Cheryl Fernandes currently pursuing my Masters Of Computer Science
> at the university of Illinois, at Chicago.
> 
> I have tried and tried but just cannot manage to find teh solutuon to teh
> following problem.
> 
> My question is: Can R be interfaced with Java. ??
> 
> My dilemma: I'm trying to run  the RGui program in WintNT from a Java
> application. i;m using runtime.exec()
> It opens teh program but after that nothing happens. After opening teh
> program i'm passing some commands to R via java's process
> OutputStreamWriter. But it does NOT respond to any of teh commands not
> even by giving an exception. 
> 
> Coudl u please let me know if i can pass commandline commands to RGui from
> within Java or are there special API's that are available. I know for a
> fact taht Java does NOT have API's for R. It does have special interface
> API for major programs
> like C. Excel, MS-Word 
> 

You could probably use the COM interface to R, which is available from
CRAN under 'non-standard extensions'.  It's still under development but it
does some things.  I believe there is a set of classes for calling COM
from Java under Windows.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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