[Gretl-devel] Gretl and R integration

[Allin Cottrell]

On Sun, 25 May 2008, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> 
> > This works in CVS.  I'll do some proper testing tomorrow.
> > ("foreign language=ox" should be a possibility too, but it's not
> > ready yet.)
> 
> Well, we do have a "special relationship" with R, so 
> generalising this (which may include octave, gnuplot... 
> whatever) requires a bit of planning. For example, the way we 
> launch R is hardwired. In the case of, say, ox, the user should 
> have a way to tell gretl where the executable is, and so on. I'd 
> say, let's focus on R right now and postpone the generalisation 
> for 1.7.5++.

Yes, agreed.

Allin.