On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:28:22AM +1000, syan tan wrote: > ON another discussion group, there was mention of inadequate statistical > functions in sql ( the example given was the difficulty of doing > a time series analysis ), > Not sure if it is true. It is.
> Is there a library interface to something like 'R' (which I know very > little about), that could be gradually exposed in gnumed ? You can load R right in PostgreSQL as a procedural language and use it within the GNUmed report generator. How about that ? ;-) > e.g. something like " select symptoms, temperature, blood pressure, > respiratory_rate, age, duration_of_symptoms, location from > patient_records group by location ", and then do some statistical > analysis function on the result. For that we'd have to add post-processing to query results and import an R binding. Which can be done but needs work to get done. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
