Hi
Nicklas,
Thank you for the follow-up.
Encountered
Matlab at University first time about 19 years ago, Octave is
similar and think the basics have stayed the same. Get the
impression development have slowed down and remember name of
mathematicians lived hundred years ago, Leibniech, Newton,
Jerome Cardan, Karl Pearsson, et. al. mostly dead.
I am not sure if I understand your point concerning the
mathematicians. To be clear, I am trying to understand how hard
would be to resurrect a project like ROctave and what background
would be required. For example, do the difficulties still
persist mentioned in DSC 2003? Were there any proposed
solutions? I found very little discussion while searching on the
subject, and was surprised considering the purpose of R and
Octave overlap.
Concerning the oct-files, my current understanding is that to
follow that approach I would need to create an oct file for
every function of interest on every R package I use on my Octave
project. This does not seem doable, and an external language
interface like ROctave to simply call functions directly from R
would seem simpler to maintain at first glance.