[Gardeners] R in Lisp, and vice versa

[Cyrus Harmon]

Wow. Looks like I wasn't the only with an idea like this. I've been  
doing something similar to connect R and lisp. Why R? Well, it has a  
wonderful set (well, sets, really) of libraries for all sorts of  
statistics computing tasks, and, in particular, has bioconductor,  
which has algorithms and data access methods for a ton of  
bioinformatics-related tasks.

I've gotten things to the point where I can eval strings, build  
expressions, call lisp functions from R, etc... but I want to get a  
bit more polished before it's released. It's coming together,  
although I've been distracted with other things for the past month or  
so. If anyone is interested in accessing R from lisp, me know.

Cyrus

On Jan 31, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Stuart Sierra wrote:

> Jeremy Smith <jeremy at decompiler.org> writes:
>> As promised on comp.lang.lisp to some howls of protest, I
>> have integrated Python, and its libraries, with Lisp.
>
> This is great!  I've actually been working on something very
> similar for Perl.
>
> So far I can execute Perl code in Lisp and get strings or
> numbers back.  Haven't had time to study handling Perl
> arrays, hashes, or callbacks.
>
> I'm sure if comp.lang.lisp got wind of this, the howls of
> protest would be even louder.
>
> To answer the burning question, "Why in the name of all that
> is holy would you ever want to DO such a thing?": Firstly,
> why not?  Secondly, cpan.org has thousands of obscure but
> useful little modules that may never get ported to
> Python/Ruby/Lisp/etc.
>
> I wasn't planning on saying anything publicly until it's
> more complete, but if folks want to know more just let me
> know and I'll throw up a web page.
>
> -Stuart
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