R devel - Dec 2007 - R-Cocoa Bridge

I had seen old posts on the list (circa 2002) regarding a Cocoa-R  
bridge that was under development, but I can't find anything recent  
about it. Does anyone know if this is available somewhere? If not,  
does anyone have any experience/pointers calling R functions from Cocoa?

Thanks for your time,
Lee Falin

> I had seen old posts on the list (circa 2002) regarding a Cocoa-R bridge 
> that was under development, but I can't find anything recent about it. 
> Does anyone know if this is available somewhere? If not, does anyone 
> have any experience/pointers calling R functions from Cocoa?
The R builds on OSX build an R.Framework; you can probably bootstrap off 
of that without too much trouble.  [I haven't done much with it; wish I 
had time.]

--elijah

On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Lee Falin wrote:
> I had seen old posts on the list (circa 2002) regarding a Cocoa-R    
> bridge that was under development, but I can't find anything recent  
> about it. Does anyone know if this is available somewhere? If not,  
> does anyone have any experience/pointers calling R functions from  
> Cocoa?
>
R/Cocoa bridge is what the R for Mac OS X GUI is built upon (just grab  
the sources and look at REngine). However, it's not perfect (its main  
purpose was to support the GUI - it may need some de-coupling - see  
also the "stand-alone-REngine" branch) and there is an ongoing project
to get write a more general bridge as part of the Mac GUI 2.x  
initiative. There are also other alternatives, but I'm not sure how  
public or currently maintained they are these days.

Cheers,
Simon