Joe Conway <mail at joeconway.com> writes:
> In case anyone is interested, here is a link to an online article
> written by someone in the Postgres community, covering PL/R:
>
>
> see (cover):
> http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/66.php
>
> and follow to (article):
>
http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/bernier/art_66/graphingWithR.html
>
> PL/R is a procedural language handler for PostgreSQL, that allows
> Postgres functions to be written in, and executed by, R.
Interesting article. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, Joe.
There are a couple of quotes that I like, such as "It's simply amazing
the things that you can learn when data is presented in a graphical
format."
It appears that the author is using <<- when he only needs <- in one
function definition. There isn't anything peculiar about PL/R that
would require <<-, is there?
Also, there are a couple of "Don't try this at home, kids" typos
like
using
apt-get install R
which I think should be
apt-get install r-base
or even
apt-get install r-recommended
(The Debian packaging system doesn't allow upper case in names, which
is why I called the original Debian package "r-base".)