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Hello, Does an R package exist for communication with instruments using GPIB (IEEE 488) protocol? Something similar exists in python for control of instruments over GPIB, RS232, or USB buses (http://pyvisa.sourceforge.net/) Thanks, Marko

Hello Mike, I saw a posting from 2002 where you were asking about running Windows programs on top of WINE that would talk to GPIB devices. Did you ever get that working? I'm looking at some HTBasic code which has it's own drivers to talk go the GPIB card. They seem to be drivers that speak directly to the memory registers of the card. I would hope that this sort of communications wouldn't be difficult to ac...

I have a windows application (LabVIEW) that requires a gpib pci card and I'm trying to get the whole thing to work under linux with the help of wine (1.3.12). The gpib card driver comes in both windows and linux flavors (but the linux version seems kind of dodgy). As I understand it, using the windows driver under wine won't work because it's...

Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why? How about the opinion of other listers? Thanks.

Hi Powermen ;-) I recently came across the Powerman project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman/), pointed by Tony Merenda, from Opengear (thanks Tony). Congrats for your work in this area! I've thought a bit about Powerman and NUT since then... NUT currently supports hosts of UPSs and few PDUs (RPCs), and provides tons of features: http://test.networkupstools.org