On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote: > If you want on-line statistical analysis and the ability to > integrate nicely with your own routines, you should have a look at > the GPL'ed R (search google for CRAN). Is it at all possible to call > your own C or Fortran from within minitab or SPSS? (Guess it would > be possible with SAS, but not sure).
IIRC, SPSS had a built-in place-holder named "USER" (or something like that) which one could invoke to call one's own ForTran routine. The ForTran routine had to be in a certain form (either a subroutine or a function, I don't remember which) and to obey certain naming conventions (else SPSS wouldn't know what name(s) to try to invoke). Whether this feature still exists in current versions of SPSS I don't know. To the best of my knowledge, the closest thing to such an arrangement in MINITAB was the way one could construct a macro to accept input from the user's keyboard. While that input was generally conceived of as some form of data, it's imaginable that a clever user could do rather more with it. I've taken the liberty of copying this post to the MINITAB list, where there may be more useful help to be found. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Burrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 56 Sebbins Pond Drive, Bedford, NH 03110 (603) 626-0816 . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
