From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-03-30T14:56:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling R from Ruby

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Phil Tomson wrote:

> This has come up before, but maybe we need a Ruby-based DSL that could be aimed
> squarely at the likes of Matlab and R.  We'd need to distribute it with a
> graphing system so that it would look like graphing was 'built-in'.  We could
> use narray as the basis for fast matrix math.  One could stay at the DSL level
> or one could delve more deeply and learn the underlying Ruby in order to get
> the greatest advantage of this sort of math-oriented DSL: users wouldn't have
> to know Ruby, but if they did it would become a more powerful tool.  irb could
> be used for an interactive mode...
>
> What should we call this?
>
> rcalc
> rmath
> mathgem
> rubysci
> ?
>
> ....  a good name can help something like this get started.

http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/tioga_doc/classes/Tioga/Tutorial/Sample.html

i realize it's not totally numerical... but he's thinking along the same
lines.  fyi.


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