Well I was not aware about that fact, so I downloaded the source code and indeed it uses Fortran - interesting, I may spend some time with that stuff. However, both IBM and GNU provide pretty advanced Fortran compilers, but it becomes more and more hairy to deal with it. Yet, if there is a demand, somebody would probably do that. And interfacing native z/OS files and SMF in particular should not be that hard. Ze'ev Atlas
________________________________ From: David Crayford <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 9:26 PM Subject: Re: R statistical language. On 21/01/2013 11:35 PM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: > One may try to build that under z/OS USS and it should work (recently > somebody discussed here building LiteSQL as pretty simple thing.) I do not > think that supporting native z/OS files should be that hard hereafter. > To port R to z/OS Unix you will need a Fortran compiler. Although the base language is written in C lots of R modules are written in Fortran. > Ze'ev Atlas > > > ________________________________ > From: John McKown <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 9:43 AM > Subject: R statistical language. > > I wonder if a z/OS port of the following language would be of > interest. It might be an interesting way to get some performance > information for those of us who cannot afford SAS. > > http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/introduction-to-gnu-r-on-linux-operating-system > > But then again, probably not, because it does not have the ability to > read SMF data built in to it. And it doesn't run on z/OS. It does run > on both Linux and Windows. But, unlike SAS on Linux/Windows, it cannot > direct read z/OS data via ftp, as best as I can see. > > But in the off chance somebody is interested: > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ > http://www.r-project.org/ home web page > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
