On 7/12/2005 10:57 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 7/12/05, Søren Højsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >From time to time people request symbolic computations beyond what D() and >> >deriv() etc can provide. A brief look at the internet shows that there are >> >many more or less developed computer algebra packages freely available. >> >Therefore, I wondered if it would be an idea to try to 'integrate' one of >> >these packages in R, which I guess can be done in more or less elegant >> >ways... I do not know any of the computer algebra people around the World, >> >but perhaps some other people from the R-community do and would be able >> >to/interested in establishing such a connection... > > > Coincidentally I asked the yacas developer about this just yesterday: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7711431&forum_id=2216
It sounds like developing an R package to act as a wrapper would be the best approach. I didn't see documentation for their API (the exports of their DLL), but I didn't spend long looking. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
