Octave interface with R

[Jason Rupert]

I'm a pretty new R (http://www.r-project.org/) and Octave user on Windows, and 
I am impressed with the functionality offered by both.  Often times this 
functionality seems unique by design. 

Recently I encountered a case where it would be very helpful to load some of 
the Octave frequency analysis capability into R, since there doesn't appear to 
be package that does some of the basic frequency analysis, e.g. bode, nyquist, 
etc.

I looked "Ten Years of Octave — Recent Developments and Plans for the Future" 
document:
www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/Drafts/EatonRawlings.pdf

That document discusses the desire to integrate Octave with R and R with 
Octave.  On Windows I tried the code in that document, but it did not seems to 
work successfully.  

I also looked at the following R package:
http://www.omegahat.org/ROctave/

Unfortunately that package was published in 2002, so it has been surpassed by 
several R and Octave releases. 

Current recommendations from the R forum are to attempt to transfer/transpose 
the necessary Octave code to R code. 
 
By any chance is there another alternative to help with interfacing Octave with 
R or vice versa?

Thanks for any insights or feedback.