[Rd] Bridging R to OpenOffice
Kevin B. Hendricks
kevin.hendricks at sympatico.ca
Wed Mar 28 19:42:21 CEST 2007
Hi,
I would like to potentially become involved with this project. I am
still learning about R-project internals but I have been digging
around a lot in the internal R-code. That said, I am initimately
familiar with OOo since I was involved as a volunteer for that
project previously. I wrote some of the OOo bridge code that allows
Linux PPC, and Mac PPC to make UNO calls (translates the abi calling
conventions from C++ to uno and then from uno back to C++ on the fly)
and also wrote their first spellchecker which used the UNO
interface. Similar uno bridges exist for Java and python. I don't
think there is a bridge from uno to fortran and back but since the
bulk of internal R code is C and that R itself can be built as a
shared library, that should not really be an issue.
As I remember, I think someone has built an interface from Gnumeric
to R if I am not mistaken. That project if it is still alive might
provide a nice model of how to interface from a spreadsheet to R
without lots of GUI front end stuff being needed. As I remember, it
just allowed a number of advanced features from R to be used from
within GNumeric (just as if you added an analysis toolpack to Excel)
It would be nice for example to have a list of extended functions
that Calc can invoke that are actually run in R and returned to
Calc's cells. I can think of many matrix functions such as finding
eigenvalues and eigenvectors that Calc can not easily do now but that
would extend Calc's usefulness as a linear model learning tool.
Anyway, my 2 cents.
As I am not a member of R-core, I would vote that the discussion
concerning this project stay on this list or failing that, that
interested people CC-me directly (khendricks at sympatico.ca).
Thanks,
Kevin
On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Sean Davis wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 09:20, Stefan Zimmermann wrote:
>>
>>> Still didn't get the point, or missed the topic ?
>>>
>>
>> I had gotten the point, yes--just trying to be helpful. I'm sorry
>> it wasn't
>> taken as such.
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