From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2006-03-31T02:28:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling R from Ruby

In article <596cfa1a67d6859b2795eb3d624e754e@ruby-forum.com>,
Edwin van Leeuwen  <edder@tkwsping.nl> wrote:
>unknown wrote:
>> Where reinvention would take too long, then perhaps it would be best to 
>> build
>> bridges.  I guess in my case I'd like to see something that could take 
>> on
>> Matlab (a closed source product).
>
>You can already do a lot of what matlab does with ruby-gsl. There are 
>also a couple of gnuplot and plotutils bridges to make plotting easy. 
>(plotutils bridge is part of ruby-gsl)

True, these things already exist to some degree, but what we need is something 
that's packaged in a very nice way so that someone who doesn't know Ruby can 
download it and start using it without even suspecting that they're using 
Ruby... then as they're getting hooked on it they can start learning Ruby 
without even suspecting.  Another gateway product, kind of like Rails ;-)

Phil