Hi I'm developing an R package that needs to execute some code written in pari/gp.
I've used this before from an R package (elliptic) but the interface is very basic: the R function creates a string such as the following: string <- echo ' ellwp ([ 2+0*I , 0+2*I ], 1+0*I )' | gp -q And then system(string) returns the output from gp which then needs to be text processed (translating "I" to "i", etc). I don't think this approach would work under Windows. Does anyone have any experience of calling pari/gp from R? Or any ideas for a more portable method than the one above? [ PARI/GP is a widely used computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory. It is freely available at http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ ] -- Robin Hankin Uncertainty Analyst National Oceanography Centre, Southampton European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK tel 023-8059-7743 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel