Re: [Rd] [rd] sage <--> r integration

2008-04-18 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Rob Goedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fritz, > > Thanks a lot for your very clear answer (it provided me with the needed > context for the decisions)! > > I'll continue to investigate what can be done on a small(er) scale with R, > the > already available R/p

Re: [Rd] [rd] sage <--> r integration

2008-04-18 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:05:56 -0700, > Rob Goedman (RG) wrote: > Mike, > I'm also surprised so few reactions have been forthcoming. I saw > William's email shortly after Jan's email about Sage. There is a priovate mailing list for all R Google SoC mentors and parts were discussed

Re: [Rd] [rd] sage <--> r integration

2008-04-17 Thread Rob Goedman
Mike, I'm also surprised so few reactions have been forthcoming. I saw William's email shortly after Jan's email about Sage. Having been involved in the Ryacas project (R to Yacas - Yet Another Computer Algebra System - with Gabor, Soren and Ayal), I believe in the tremendous benefits of s

[Rd] [rd] sage <--> r integration

2008-04-17 Thread Mike Hansen
I would like to re-emphasize the above points that William makes. Both projects could benefit a lot from working with each other. A fair number of people, including Persi Diaconis and Susan Holmes, have had enthusiastic responses when I mentioned that R was being included with Sage. This is a goo

[Rd] Sage <--> R integration

2008-04-15 Thread William Stein
Hi R-Devel, The Sage project (http://www.sagemath.org) has been working extremely hard for several years to create a viable free open source alternative to Maple, Matlab, Mathematica, and Magma. Numerous users have requested statistical functionality. Though Sage includes scipy and numpy, which ha