From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) Date: 2006-03-30T16:03:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Calling R from Ruby In article , wrote: >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. > Looks interesting. Hadn't run across it before. Maybe Tioga would be a good candidate for the graphics component of what I'm talking about. Phil