[Bioperl-l] The Power of R

[Dr. T. I. Simpson]

I agree with Chris on this.

Used RSPerl about a year ago to integrate some clustering experiments in R  
with a Perl script that fed data to R and picked up output, but it was  
mighty painful and accessing R objects through RSPerl was indeed a PITA.

Ian.


On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:26:14 -0000, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu>  
wrote:

> Not to bash this, as it is a decent piece of software, but...  : >
>
> 1) Painful to install, and doesn't support a local perl installation  
> (keeps attempting to go back and use my 5.8.8 instead of my local 5.10).
> 2) Not on CPAN.
> 3) Though this is supposed to be bidirectional, R from Perl is not well  
> supported and apparently does not work for Windows.
> 4) Doesn't appear to be well-supported in general.
>
> I do not intend on writing a full perl suite for R/BioC analyses if I  
> end up having to work around problems with the critical module.
>
> -c
>
> On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Boris Umylny wrote:
>
>> What do you think of RSPerl (http://www.omegahat.org/RSPerl/)?
>>
>>
>> Boris
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Fields" <cjfields at illinois.edu 
>> >
>> To: "Mark A. Jensen" <maj at fortinbras.us>
>> Cc: <bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] The Power of R
>>
>>
>>> Now if we can only get a decent Perl-R interface which isn't a PITA to  
>>> install...
>>>
>>> chris
>>>
>>> On Jan 6, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Mark A. Jensen wrote:
>>>
>>>> So says the New York Times:
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html
>>>>
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