[R] How to evaluate R things from Visual Studio?

Tue May 22 22:57:26 CEST 2012

I understand what you're saying, but I know the mere basic stuff of 
programming. I am unable to exploit the so called "itch" because of my lack 
of knowledge.

also, do you really have to get stuck on semantics??? it's just a sentence 
"what is that difficult?". A mere sentence. I've done a great job writing 50 
more, describing my problem, giving all the necessary info if not more.

I'd really appreciate it if when someone took the time to answer to me, the 
answer itself be relevant.

The facts are: It is something that has been done before, repeatedly. It 
isn't hard, you just have to find the right way, which would take about 1 to 
5 minutes to write down and send it to me in order to help.
And there is much likelihood that many people here do know the way.
So, in a nutshell, it isn't that crazy for me to ask here (having tried many 
other places).

All I'm asking is, if someone has something relevant and helping to share, 
please do so. Otherwise, please refrain from dedicating your time replying 
in vain.

Don't get me wrong, I do thank everyone who has devoted his time in 
answering me, even if not successful, yet at least.
Thanks guys. And remember, I need info on either how to get R.NET working, 
or any other way of using R from Visual Studio. Any useful insight is very 
much appreciated.

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Giannis Mamalikidis
e-mail: Giannis_Mamalikidis at msn.com
Member of the STAINS Research Group
(STAtistics & INformation Systems Group) of the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Site: http://stains.csd.auth.gr
B.Sc Student in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeff Newmiller
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:23 PM
To: Peter Ehlers ; Giannis Mamalikidis
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] How to evaluate R things from Visual Studio?

Things tend to get done in the open-source world because someone has an itch 
to scratch. Giannis, you seem to be the one with the itch, and it doesn't 
appear to be an itch others on this list share. There exists documentation
and example code for embedding R within other compiled environments, and
there is an R-devel mailing list for questions on interfacing to other code. 
If you think it is easy, go for it. I suspect that fixing R.NET is likely to 
take the least amount of work, but it could make assumptions you don't want 
to make, so I could be wrong. In either case, saying "Why is it THAT 
difficult?" is not going to win you much support.
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Peter Ehlers <ehlers at ucalgary.ca> wrote:

>Sorry, I have no solution for your problem, but a comment;
>see inline below.
>
>On 2012-05-22 08:02, Giannis Mamalikidis wrote:
>> Hello all, I’m new here and this is actually my very first post.
>> My name is Giannis and I am an undergraduate student. I am
>programming in Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 (VB.NET mostly) and I
>want to create a program for the research group I am in.
>>
>> I merely want to evaluate actions and use simple statistical things
>such as ks test (Kolmogorov-Smirnov), and some plots.
>> The reason I need to call R from my program is that the users of my
>program will NOT know any programming language, and by extension they
>will not know R either. So everything will happen by the click of a
>button.
>> For me to do that, I need to be able to use interoperability between
>R and VS.NET 2010, so that I can use R’s evaluator.
>>
>> I’ve already tried Baier’s StatConnDCOM (http://rcom.univie.ac.at)
>and I did succeed in creating a program that runs perfectly but came to
>see the hard way that – for my case, is kind of useless for the sole
>reason of StatconnDCOM’s redistribution restriction.
>> As Mr. Baier told me himself, there is no guarantee that StatconnDCOM
>will be available free of charge for ever. Hence I cannot create a
>freeware program now, and have my users uncertain of where they will be
>able to use this program for free in the future.
>>
>> I’ve already tried R.NET (http://rdotnet.codeplex.com/ ) Version 1.4
>(stable) and 1.4.1 (Change Set: 6d2c3f161801 ).
>> This does seem wonderful and it doesn’t have StaconnDCOM’s ridiculous
[[elided Hotmail spam]]
>>
>> So, now that you have all the necessary background info, it is time I
>presented my questions:
>>
>> 1) Is there another way of using R from Visual Studio that you can
>point me to?
>> 2) Is anyone here using R.NET (any version) successfully? If so, can
>you help me to get it working? Unfortunately they can’t help me on
>R.NET’s official discussion forum
>>
>> I mean, I just need to evaluate the basic R stuff.. Why is it THAT
>difficult?
>
>This appears to imply that you consider it to be R's fault that you
>can't easily interface it with Visual Studio. Isn't that rather the
>fault of VS? If VS were open source, as R is, you could probably
>find an easy solution yourself.
>
>If you don't get a solution from one of those much more knowledgeable
>than I, perhaps you might contact Microsoft.
>
>Peter Ehlers
>
>>
>> Last but not least, let me give you info that might be relevant in
>your deciding how to aid me.

>> R: Version 2.15.0

>>
>> For any additional Info, please do not hesitate to ask me either here
>or directly at Giannis_Mamalikidis at msn.com
>> I hope we can make this work. thanks in advance.
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>>
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