Wow. Looks like I wasn't the only with an idea like this. I've been doing something similar to connect R and lisp. Why R? Well, it has a wonderful set (well, sets, really) of libraries for all sorts of statistics computing tasks, and, in particular, has bioconductor, which has algorithms and data access methods for a ton of bioinformatics-related tasks.
I've gotten things to the point where I can eval strings, build expressions, call lisp functions from R, etc... but I want to get a bit more polished before it's released. It's coming together, although I've been distracted with other things for the past month or so. If anyone is interested in accessing R from lisp, me know. Cyrus On Jan 31, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Stuart Sierra wrote: > Jeremy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As promised on comp.lang.lisp to some howls of protest, I >> have integrated Python, and its libraries, with Lisp. > > This is great! I've actually been working on something very > similar for Perl. > > So far I can execute Perl code in Lisp and get strings or > numbers back. Haven't had time to study handling Perl > arrays, hashes, or callbacks. > > I'm sure if comp.lang.lisp got wind of this, the howls of > protest would be even louder. > > To answer the burning question, "Why in the name of all that > is holy would you ever want to DO such a thing?": Firstly, > why not? Secondly, cpan.org has thousands of obscure but > useful little modules that may never get ported to > Python/Ruby/Lisp/etc. > > I wasn't planning on saying anything publicly until it's > more complete, but if folks want to know more just let me > know and I'll throw up a web page. > > -Stuart > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
