[R] what is best for scripting?

Barry Rowlingson B.Rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Mon Dec 5 10:43:15 CET 2005


José Matos wrote:

>   In this case I prefer to use rpy (look for it in sourceforge), it
> allow to call R directly from python,
> with the main advantage that the resulting objects are really python
> objects, and vice-versa
> calling R with python objects will convert them to R objects.
> 
>  It works quite well for me. :-)

And if anyone wants to call Rserve[1] from Python then I've written some 
client code that does most of the useful[2] Rserve stuff.

If anyone wants to have a go with it (essentially, be a beta tester) let 
me know.

Baz

[1] http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/Rserve

[2] Well, useful to me.




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