On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Richard Fateman
<fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> In looking for the graphing code (see previous message),
> I came across a directory I had of a large body of statistical
> computing code. This code, written by experts, is a competitor to "S"
> and was written in ?lisp, a number of years ago. In fact, a whole
> lisp system was built on it: Lisp-stat. ? It lost out in competition
> to "S", for reasons that have to do more with market pressure rather
> than technical prowess. ?(there is a history on this..)
I looked at the stuff at github and it seems to be be pretty
limited in functionality. I don't think I'd want to import the
whole thing into Maxima, and I don't see any discrete chunks
that could be imported. Maxima already has a lot of that
stuff scattered in different corners (statistical stuff, linear
algebra, plotting).
>From what I can tell Lisp-stat is much more limited than R.
> (if you take this up seriously, you should also consider whether
> linking to "S" is feasible or even preferable.)
Yeah, that's worth considering. Another possibility is
to write a parser for R scripts in Lisp such that they can
be parsed and loaded into Maxima. Well, to make that
really workable one would also need FFI to link the C
code which is part of many R packages.
FWIW
Robert Dodier