On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Оботуров Артем <obotu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > One of my clients asked if it would be possible to have an IDE which could > use type discovery for R functions to make flow-like construction of an R > program. Something like a LabView graphical composition of processing > elements. > > They called this type of program composition a "workflow". > > I looked at some of this programs, like: > * Orange http://orange.biolab.si/ > * RedR http://www.red-r.org/ > * Rattle http://rattle.togaware.com/ > * Rpad https://code.google.com/p/rpad/ > > and all of them did type introspection (they made mapping between R > functions and their IDE's visual framework) by hand for each function of > supported packages which is time and resource consuming. > > So, to reduce an amount of code to be written for adapters between R and > IDE some kind of annotations could be introduced over parameters and return > values. Those could be optional and will help to discover type information > for support of dynamic composition of programs. > > Do you have any suggestions on the topic?
See http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/html/TypeInfo.html -Deepayan ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
