[R-SIG-Mac] Scripting R

[Christian Prinoth]

Sorry for appending an unrelated conversation, just lazyness on my side.
About the post topic, I did not really know how to name it, but since I
was under the impression that a more complete applescript dictionnary fr
R-OSX could achieve what I am loooking for, I chose to name it thus.

So, going back to the real topic, could you please elaborate on what
"application that support data sharing" means? Is this some COM-like
protocol?
This would be of interest not only relating to Excel for OSX, but also
other sw, like OpenOffice or Numbers.

Thanks,
Christian Prinoth <cp at epsilonsgr.it>
Epsilon SGR
+39-02-88102355


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org]
> Sent: 29 January, 2009 17:34
> To: Christian Prinoth
> Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Scripting R
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:03 , Christian Prinoth wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > is there something similar to rcom on OSX? I understand that R for 
> > OSX has some limited applescript support, but I was wondering if 
> > there is an easy way to share data with other applications. My 
> > ultimate goal would be to use R together with a spreadsheet
> as I can 
> > currently do on windows with R, rcom and Excel.
> >
>
> Well, the subject has apparently noting to do with your
> question. All 
> I can say is you can use AppleScript to run commands in R from other 
> applications and you can use the default AS libraries to otherwise 
> control R -- so you, you can script R. In addition, R can
> easily share 
> data with any application that supports data sharing. I have no idea 
> about Excel on Mac OS X since I don't use it, so someone
> would have to 
> find out if it supports data exchange and how.
>
> Cheers,
> S
>
> PS: What does your e-mail have to do with the discussion below?!?

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