From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2002-04-10T22:39:13+09:00
Subject: R interface (was: (more math functions))


As a thought, has anyone created an extension to R for ruby?

At 10:31 AM 4/10/2002 +0900, Mike Hall wrote:
>Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
> > These functions and constants are defined under difference standards.
> > POSIX, SVID, SVIF, etc.  I'm not sure how far we should go, and how we
> > treat undefined functions (yet).
>
>Understood.  I was foolish and assumed that most modern UNIXen
>would have these routines.   I guess 99% of the world can live
>w/o Bessel functions!  :-)
>
>But, those constants (DBL_MAX, DBL_MIN, DBL_EPSILON) are good to have.
>Perhaps adding them will ferret out the equivalent definitions
>from other standards?


-mark.