A priority may be to move data easily between R and packages such as GeneSpring. It would be useful to know how much of GeneSpring's functionality will in due course be available in the Bioconductor bundle - most of it? >On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:47:08PM +1000, Jess Mar wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm wondering if anyone has made any attempts at interfacing R and >> GeneSpring? If you're familiar with GeneSpring, you'll know it can be done >> via the External Program Interface. I've made a start, but was curious to >> know if anyone has already got this working. > > Not that I know of. I'm not sure what it would do though. Are you > thinking of accessing R functionality from within GeneSpring? > > The most important part will probably be mapping between the different > data structures used (those in GeneSpring and those in R). > > Good luck, > Robert > > >> >> Best wishes, Jess >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> >> Jess Mar >> Department of Mathematics & >> Institute for Molecular Bioscience Phone: +617 3371 6493 >> University of Queensland Email: j.mar@imb.uq.edu.au >> Brisbane Q 4072 jcm@maths.uq.edu.au >> AUSTRALIA >> ______________________________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >> http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > >-- >+-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------+ >| Robert Gentleman phone : (617) 632-5250 | >| Associate Professor fax: (617) 632-2444 | >| Department of Biostatistics office: M1B28 >| Harvard School of Public Health email: rgentlem@jimmy.dfci.harvard.edu | >+-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------+ >_______________________________________________ >Bioconductor mailing list >Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor -- John Maindonald email: john.maindonald@anu.edu.au phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Bioinformation Science, Room 1194, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.