[R-SIG-Mac] Testers wanted: Ryacas has a new module

[David Winsemius]

The Ryacas package was formerly a client-side interface to YACAS (Yet Another Computer Algebra System). I couldn't get either version 1.0.63 or version 1.4.2 to accept Ryacas' client messages on the R 2.3.4/OSX10.11.3 platform, despite being able to run YACAS as a standalone package. I contacted Gabor Grothendieck who was in correspondence with Grzegorz Mazur who had recently bolted on a recent version of YACAS to the package itself, obviating any server-client fragility. It seems to "just work" on my system. The only requirements would be current versions of XCode, Rcpp, XML, and devtools:


if( require(devtools) ) {
    devtools::install_github("ggrothendieck/ryacas") }

Gabor has suggested that interested useRs may want to take this racehorse out on the track for further testing.

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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA


> packageDescription("Ryacas")
Package: Ryacas
Version: 0.3-1
Date: 2016-09-07
Title: R Interface to the Yacas Computer Algebra System
Author: Rob Goedman <goedman at mac.com>, Gabor Grothendieck
         <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>, Søren Højsgaard <Soren.Hojsgaard at agrsci.dk>,
         Ayal Pinkus <apinkus at xs4all.nl>, Grzegorz Mazur <teoretyk at gmail.com>
Maintainer: G. Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
Encoding: UTF-8
Description: An interface to the yacas computer algebra system.
Imports: Rcpp (>= 0.12.0), XML, stats
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: testthat (>= 0.9.0)
License: GPL-2
URL: https://github.com/ggrothendieck/ryacas
Built: R 3.2.4; x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0; 2016-04-13 00:47:16 UTC; unix
RemoteType: github
RemoteHost: api.github.com
RemoteRepo: ryacas
RemoteUsername: ggrothendieck
RemoteRef: master
RemoteSha: 48f659d5935452f5d89e4bffc0090e3151e43f0b
GithubRepo: ryacas
GithubUsername: ggrothendieck
GithubRef: master
GithubSHA1: 48f659d5935452f5d89e4bffc0090e3151e43f0b

-- File: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/Ryacas/Meta/package.rds