Martin Maechler
2000-Sep-18 08:41 UTC
[Rd] Fortran 90 / 95 compilers? // interface packages for R ?
We have (spatial statistics) group here that are (about to) interface Fortran 90 and/or 95 software to R and/or S-plus. My recommendation has been against this because of non-availability of GNU or other free (not only moneywise, in the GNU sense) compilers for Fortran 9x. Does anybody have good guesses about the future here? The user group here say they like F 9[05] because of its ``object oriented'' approach and data types. Probably we shouldn't start a discussion about this statement, but rather acknowledge that in the numerical analysis community, there seems to be a drive from F77 to F90 Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO D10 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <>< -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Prof Brian Ripley
2000-Sep-18 10:56 UTC
[Rd] Fortran 90 / 95 compilers? // interface packages for R ?
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Martin Maechler wrote:> We have (spatial statistics) group here that are (about to) interface > Fortran 90 and/or 95 software to R and/or S-plus. > > My recommendation has been against this because of non-availability of > GNU or other free (not only moneywise, in the GNU sense) compilers for > Fortran 9x. Does anybody have good guesses about the future here? > The user group here say they like F 9[05] because of its ``object > oriented'' approach and data types. Probably we shouldn't start a > discussion about this statement, but rather acknowledge that in the > numerical analysis community, there seems to be a drive from F77 to F90The prime developer of g77 has withdrawn, so last time I looked its future was in serious doubt. I agree that Fortran 95 is the future for the Fortran-using community, and is the standard used by commercial compilers nowadays. I think using it on Windows for R would cause us serious difficulties. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._