I would use such a symbolic math package for R. I have dreamt of an open-source solution with functionality similar to mathStatica. http://www.mathstatica.com/ Is yacas the best system to consider? What about Maxima http://maxima.sourceforge.net/, which is also GPL, or maybe Axiom http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom, which has a modified BSD license?
Cheers, Simon. At 01:25 AM 13/07/2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >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 Simon Blomberg, B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D, M.App.Stat. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 7800 email: Simon.Blomberg_at_anu.edu.au F: +61 2 6125 0757 CRICOS Provider # 00120C ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
