On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:06 -0400, Alan Zaslavsky wrote: > I have thought for a long time that a facility for efficient rowwise > calculations might be a valuable enhancement to S/R. The storage of the > object would be handled by a database and there would have to be an > efficient interface for pulling a row (or small chunk of rows) out of the > database repeatedly; alternatively the operatons could be conducted inside > the database.
You can embed R inside postgres, though I don't know how efficient this would be. But it does allow one to operator on a per row basis. http://www.omegahat.org/RSPostgres/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally I am becoming stupider no more - Paul Erdos' epitaph ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
