As an R user, I'm happy to see the project below, it could become a very handy use of SQLite.
I suspect it's well out of scope for that project, but it would be particularly cool to eventually see some of the integration go the other way, and allow use of SQLite's SQL engine to manipulate R data frames (which are tables, basically) from within R, as that would be much more powerful than R's rather limited set of data frame manipulation functions. ----- Forwarded message from Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: "Douglas Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:16:12 -0500 To: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: [Rd] R Project accepted for the Google Summer of Code We are very pleased that an R project has been selected as one of the GNU projects for the Google Summer of Code 2006 (http://code.google.com/soc/). Miguel Angel R. Manese, an M.S. Statistics student at the University of the Philippines, will be working with Douglas Bates and Brian Ripley on a project entitled `SQLite Data Frames for R' to let R store very large datasets in an SQLite database transparently, implementing primitive operations for data stored in SQLite so that they behave exactly like ordinary data frames to the users. It is likely that the project will result in the first instance in an R package (which may in due course become part of the tarball). Congratulations, Miguel! ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/
