From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-16T14:34:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RSRuby 0.4

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Alex Gutteridge wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have released a new version of RSRuby on rubyforge today:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/rsruby/
>
> RSRuby allows the user to embed a full R interpreter into a Ruby script. This 
> allows the script to call any R function and convert the result back into 
> Ruby. From the R website: 'R is a free software environment for statistical 
> computing and graphics.'. Running a students t-test (or any other R function) 
> is as simple as:
>
>  require 'rsruby'
>  r=RSRuby.instance		#Create R interpreter
>  ttest = r.t_test([1,2,3])		#Convert [1,2,3] to R. Run t.test 
> function and convert result back to Ruby
>  puts ttest['p.value']		#Prints out p.value statistic from the ttest 
> object
>
> In this new release, the whole codebase has been moved over to an RPy 
> (http://rpy.sourceforge.net/) derived core, which has resulted in some 
> changes and new features as well as improved stability. Documentation is 
> still patchy, though there are some examples included in the release and an 
> almost complete conversion of the RPy test suite. A better manual/tutorial is 
> on my list of things for the next release, until then the RPy manual may 
> help.
>
> Dr Alex Gutteridge
> Post-Doctoral Researcher
>
> Bioinformatics Center
> Institute for Chemical Research
> Kyoto University
> Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011
> Japan

insanely cool stuff alex!

-a
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