Hey Ziv, On 8/9/06, Ziv Rotman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi I will begin by introducing myself, I am Ziv Rotman from Israel. I have a Bsc. in physics and computer science and I am currently working on my research for my Phd. in physics in the field of statistical mechanics. so after this short introduction, let's get down to details. I have never worked on an open source project though I enjoy it's fruits. so I figured out this is a good time to start contributing, and of all projects this one seems to be the best fit for my skills. I am usually working with c++ or java whatever suits my needs. as I previously mentioned I never done such thing before so I might need a little more help at the beginning, but I think that in the long run I will be able to be more productive.
We currently have this wiki page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Statistical_Data_Analysis_Tool to sort of outline what functionality we need. So far, no development has been done, but my gut feeling is that we will first look into using R from http://www.r-project.org. According to their website, R specifically allows itself to be embedded into another application, so that may be the way to go. But there is one difficulty: R is released under GPL and OO.o is under LGPL. This means we can't ship R with OO.o or dynamically link to it; we need to somehow find a way to find and load R at run-time in order to comply with the licensing term. We could use someone to look into this. :-) So, currently our tasks would entail: 1) improve our feature requirement in the above wiki page 2) investigate how to embed R into OO.o and perhaps expose R's functionality via UNO, without violating the licensing term of R (GPL). UNO is the component technology used throughout OO.o, and you would probably need to have a good knowledge of this technology in order to contribute. You can read more about it here [ http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html ]. To learn more about how to embed R, see [ http://developer.r-project.org/embedded.html ]. HTH, Kohei -- Kohei Yoshida, OpenOffice.org Calc Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
