On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:45 , Christian Prinoth wrote:
Simon,
As I said in my earlier e-mail AFAICS neither Microsoft nor Apple
support plugins and for OO there is already a plugin.
Thanks, I will checkout the OO plugin, this might be the best
immediate
solution
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.
FWIW, RExcel allows passing only scalars, arrays and dataframes
between
R and Excel. It would be pointless to try to accomodate any "exotic" R
datatypes on a spreadsheet.
Hmm .. I thought it can do plots and such ... (and BTW a dataframe is
already a quite complex structure ;)).
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 ...
Just for curiosity, why do you think AS would not do? I am
relatively new to the OSX platform, but I thought that the
"pervasiveness" of Applescript would eliminate the need for any sort
of plugin architecture since every application can "export" features
via an appropriate dictionnary that may then be accessed system-wide.
For AS to work you need two "native" UI applications. Ideally, to
embed R in Excel you don't want all that - you just want Excel to be
able to access R's functions by embedding R (at least that's what I
would do ;P). Note that I have no clue about Excel on a Mac, so I
don't even know whether you can use formulae in Excel that will map to
AS requests which is the minimal requirement for this to make any
sense ... Anyway, I may look into adding some push/pull AS facilities
to the R GUI and we'll see whether it will be useful for anything or
not ...
Cheers,
S
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