Unanswered Integration with R

  • Wednesday, February 02, 2011 12:35 PM
     
     

    How about Sho and R? Is there some pre-build support for interacting with R, the same way as there is a tight connection between Sho and Python (as I understand)? Of course, there are packages for communicating between Python and R.

    In any case, what are your views and plans for Sho and R? That would make Sho ideal at least for us.

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  • Friday, February 18, 2011 8:34 PM
     
     
    Would really love to see MS have an answer for R!
  • Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:14 AM
     
     

    The interpolation between two complex language systems is extremely hard (here R and .Net). 

    First, R is a managed system. .Net is also managed. How can the two GCs talk to each other?

    My suggestion is used the old-fashioned text stream for communicating R and .Net. You can use IronPython generate an R script, run the script and get the output of that script.

    Usually you only use R for some specific model, so such communication between R and .Net is rare.


    - Yin Zhu