Christian,
On Jan 30, 2009, at 4:48 , Christian Prinoth wrote:
Simon,
If you think so - what is missing? How would you envision it?
In the same way as Excel plugins for Matlab, R etc work in windows.
As I said in my earlier e-mail AFAICS neither Microsoft nor Apple
support plugins and for OO there is already a plugin.
Currently R-OSX has an Applescript dictionnary with a single
instruction 'cmd', which allows "remote execution" of R statements.
What I have in mind are two further instructions 'getdata' and
'putdata' that allow to move objects from R to whatever application
is accessing R via Applescript.
Something along those lines could be done -- probably more natural to
the AS approach abstracting something like a workspace object.
Nonetheless I'm not sure this helps with your problem, because this is
more about UIs talking to each other than proper computing
capabilities. (E.g. it will be likely a pain to use anything bu simple
numbers/vectors). But at least it would be something to play with.
This way every half-serious OSX application can make use of R's
calculation power.
However, this is an entirely different question. I'm not sure AS is
the best tool for this purpose -- but then the options are rather few
due to lack of plugins ...
Cheers,
Simon
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