Re: [R] Conversion of S+ libraries

2010-10-22 Thread William Dunlap
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of bill.venab...@csiro.au Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:33 PM To: glenn.tre...@ilim.com; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Conversion of S+ libraries It would

Re: [R] Conversion of S+ libraries

2010-10-22 Thread Bill.Venables
Dunlap [mailto:wdun...@tibco.com] Sent: Saturday, 23 October 2010 1:11 AM To: Venables, Bill (CMIS, Cleveland); glenn.tre...@ilim.com; r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] Conversion of S+ libraries -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r

Re: [R] Conversion of S+ libraries

2010-10-21 Thread Bill.Venables
It would certainly not be straightforward, unless Tibco has done a lot of work to make it possible in recent years, (which is not unlikely). They have done a lot of work in the other direction, i.e. enabling R packages to be used within S-PLUS. S-PLUS has the concept of a chapter, which