[BioC] R and GeneSpring

John Maindonald john.maindonald@anu.edu.au
Tue, 21 May 2002 10:12:29 +1000


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
>>
>>
>>
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