Hi all, Thanks for the wonderful forum with all the valuable help and comments here. I have been a splus user for the past 7 to 8 years and now crossing the mind of changing over to R. Have been doing a lot of reading and one of the main reasons is being an open source and the wonderful things that comes with that. My question is though, is it possible to export any of the function or librarys that come with splus to R.? For my specific situation. Windows platform, if there is a compiled s.dll is there a way we can get this working in R. I would think if it s function or source file it probably can be written without much difficulty in R. But what about the compiled data. I am not a system programmer so don't know much about compiling/ undoing that.>From my understanding it is going to be difficult, is that my understandingright.? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Exporting-Nuopt-from-splus-to-R-tp1748681p1748681.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Jp2010 <mandans_p <at> yahoo.com> writes:>From my understanding it is going to be difficult, is that my understanding > right.?Probably impossible ... TIBCO, or whoever owns S-PLUS now (I don't pay much attention, so it's hard for me to keep track) does try to achieve as much R-compatibility as possible: see http://csan.insightful.com/doc/spluspackages.pdf . If your use of NUOPT is mission-critical, or if the price of S-PLUS is not prohibitive, it might make sense to keep using S-PLUS to some extent. If you can't do that, take a look at http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Optimization.html to see if R can do the things you are using NUOPT for.
On 02.04.2010 01:16, Jp2010 wrote:> > Hi all, > Thanks for the wonderful forum with all the valuable help and comments here. > > I have been a splus user for the past 7 to 8 years and now crossing the mind > of changing over to R. Have been doing a lot of reading and one of the main > reasons is being an open source and the wonderful things that comes with > that. > > My question is though, is it possible to export any of the function or > librarys that come with splus to R.? > > For my specific situation. Windows platform, if there is a compiled s.dll is > there a way we can get this working in R. I would think if it s function or > source file it probably can be written without much difficulty in R. But > what about the compiled data. I am not a system programmer so don't know > much about compiling/ undoing that. > >> From my understanding it is going to be difficult, is that my understanding > right.? > > Thanks >If you are talking abouit an already compiled dll, it is not possible to get it working. You need to recompile the sources and createw some new library. Uwe Ligges