[R] Extracting S code from a C program

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sun Jul 8 18:59:46 CEST 2007


On 08/07/2007 12:07 PM, francogrex wrote:
> There is a C program called GPS: 'gamma poisson shrinker' at
> ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/gps/
> The algorithms in GPS are based on S-Plus programs written by William
> DuMouchel with support from Columbia University and AT&T Labs. 
> My question is: is there a relatively easy way to extract some of the S code
> from this windows program? Thanks.

No.  From the description, there's no S code there to extract, it's been 
translated to C, and you don't even have the source code.

I'd recommend contacting Dr. DuMouchel to see if he is willing to let 
you have his S code.

Duncan Murdoch



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