From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2006-03-31T14:27:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Calling R from Ruby Phil Tomson wrote: > 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 ;-) > Hmmm ... the R folks say the same thing about R. :) Download it, load the R Commander GUI front end, look at the R code it's executing when it does your analysis, learn to program in R slowly ... Actually, I really like the Ruby Matrix/Mathn/Rational/Complex setup. It's a little on the slow side for large problems, but for small problems, it gets exact answers in a lot of cases and the code is quite instructive. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://linuxcapacityplanning.com