[R] VB and R

[Roger Bivand]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. wrote:

> I belive R, which is platform independent, does not work with any platform
> specific software or languages, like Visual Basic. Can you write your code
> by passing information through input/output files (CSV & HML might be good
> formats)?

R can be used in a (D)COM context - see:

http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/dcom

and can be embedded in other software systems too. To quote from:

http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/dcom/RSrv135.html

"R (D)COM server provides a mechanism for standard applications like 
Microsoft Excel or custom applications written in any language serving as 
a COM client (e.g. Visual Basic, Perl) to use the R as a powerful 
computational engine and renderer for graphics and text output."

Because there are so many possibilities, the "good paper" is in the 
examples, there isn't (as far as I know) a complete manual.

> 
> Jarek Tuszynski
> SAIC
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> Dear Listers,
> 
> Is there any good paper about how to use R together with VB?
> 
> Thank you so much!
> 
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> WenSui Liu
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> Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center
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