Hi,
I would like to raise some important questions. Therefore, I invite the
whole OOo team to join this discussion. It would be wise to have some
good ideas concerning these issues before the actual coding starts.
Wojciech Gryc wrote:
the usefulness of any integration (for me) is
based on two types of users: "advanced" and "basic".
Erich Neuwirth wrote:
You really want a "closed" interface for naive users of statistics,
probably through a menu driven interface similar to the analysis toolkit
in Excel.
There is indeed the need to clarify which users we want to support
first. I would like to have both support for basic users, as well as
methods for a more complete integration of R. Obviously, this latter
approach will be more difficult to code.
Therefore, before the real coding starts, here are my questions:
1. What should we implement first?
A basic integration of R with some hard-coded functions accessible from
the Calc menu is more easily to implement and would benefit primarily
newbies (which are less likely able to analyse the data using R and
therefore would benefit the most).
A more advanced integration would benefit more experienced users, too,
but it is more difficult to implement.
Before answering this question, maybe the following one should be
discussed, too.
2. What is doable during this summer?
Is it doable to implement the more advanced version during this summer?
Or alternatively, what resources are needed to implement it during this
summer (during the Google SoC). Of course it is doable if there are
enough resources.
3. This implies another question:
Are there any changes necessary inside Calc and R to implement it?
Please bear in mind that the implementation should be
platform-independent (aka should work on most platforms), therefore some
of the tasks won't be trivial.
If a lot of changes are necessary, then it will be difficult to make it
during this summer, without substantial coding help from both the OOo
team and the R core developers team. This should be taken account of.
And now, lets open the discussion. I welcome any informed arguing.
Sincerely,
Leonard
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