-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert just pointed me to the exchange about R and Perl. There is no technical reason why the RSPerl package can't run on Windows. It is more that people haven't needed it there and so there is limited point in implementing and maintaining that aspect of the code. If there is sufficient interest (only needs to be small :-)) then we can do that. Alternatively, one can use a general approach via the DCOM packages on the omegahat site to allow R to export DCOM server objects. This is quite a bit more general and in keeping with the DCOM model than making the R interpreter (e.g. eval(command), assign and get) available or using Statistics-R. They are for R programmers who are "caught" in another language. And the DCOM server objects approach has the nice property that it makes the same facilities available to Python, Visual Basic, etc. with no extra effort. The type specification material that Robert's group and I are working on will also help here. If there is real interest in getting RSPerl on Windows, let me know. D. - -- Duncan Temple Lang duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu Department of Statistics work: (530) 752-4782 371 Kerr Hall fax: (530) 752-7099 One Shields Ave. University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616, USA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDoE3c9p/Jzwa2QP4RAmutAJ97IqvZK42z63IXt4H2SYWL/atZtgCfUgg1 gRhRzNm7rjTQjQACQgT/uPg= =GQY5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----