R help - Mar 2001 - python bindings for R

Hello,

my group is investigating the development of a statistical program in
support of some other work we are doing.  Stats is not really our area of
expertise and we would like to leverage existing code where possible.  From
your site, I have gathered that R is pretty capable and well used.  We are
currently developing in python and targetting a primarily windows
environment.  We would like to build a pretty simple GUI front end and are
wondering if it is feasible to add python bindings for R.  Python is a very
flexible language for binding to other languages.  I can envision two ways
of doing this ... wrapping R in some C code using the C interface and
exposing that to python or by exposing R directly without wrappers (not sure
if this is possible).  I am looking for feedback/comments as to the
viability of this approach.  We would be willing to leave the interface code
in the Open Source community, of course :)

Thanks,

Paul

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On Friday 16 March 2001 14:16, Capt.P.Spencer wrote:

> sure if this is possible).  I am looking for feedback/comments as to the
> viability of this approach.  We would be willing to leave the interface
> code in the Open Source community, of course :)
Have a look at http://www.omegahat.org!

I think they've done what you're looking for.

Cheers

Kaspar Pflugshaupt

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> environment.  We would like to build a pretty simple GUI front end and are
> wondering if it is feasible to add python bindings for R.  Python is a very
Have a look at www.omegahat.org (a project closely related to R) and its R -
Python interface.  It is my understanding, though, that the
Omegahat code is not necessarily targeted for the Windows platform.

Dirk

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