[R] How can I call R from Java or C?

[Aylin Yilmaz]

Hi Henrik,

Thank you very much. This link is also very helpful.

Ilene

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> Hi. Depending on what you are trying to do, you may also take a look
> at Rserve
>
>  http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/Rserve/
>
> From the webpage: "Rserve is a TCP/IP server which allows other
> programs to use facilities of R (see www.r-project.org) from various
> languages without the need to initialize R or link against R library.
> Every connection has a separate workspace and working directory.
> Client-side implementations are available for popular languages such
> as C/C++ and Java."
>
> From the Rserve FAQ: Supported Platforms: "Rserve should work on any
> plarform supporting shared libraries which is also supported by R. The
> following platforms were tested and are known to work with the latest
> release: Linux (PPC, x86), Windows (x86), Mac OS X / Darwin (PPC), AIX
> (PPC since version 0.1-10), SunOS (sun4u since version 0.2)"
>
> I haven't used it myself so I do not know about the performance etc,
> but it looks like it is easy to get started with.
>
> Henrik Bengtsson
> Lund University
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Aylin Yilmaz
> > Sent: den 10 december 2003 23:48
> > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: [R] How can I call R from Java or C?
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I am new to R. I have been looking for a way to call R
> > functions from Java or C.
> >
> > What I have found so far is: I can execute R commands in
> > batch mode from a file and redirect the output to another
> > file. However, I am not sure this is the way to do it.
> >
> > About C, is it true that I can only call R from a C
> > process,only if that C process is invoked within R itself? So
> > is it R->C->R ?
> >
> > If I could call R from C, then I could possibly call C from
> > Java using JNI (i am not sure exactly how well that will work)
> >
> > If you have any suggestions for R's interface that would be
> > really nice.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ilene
> >
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