[BioC] R from perl

[Sean Davis]

On 12/14/05 4:15 AM, "Steffen Durinck" <sdurinck at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> One possible solution on Windows is when you would have an R script that
> can get the data it needs from some temporary files created by Perl and
> knows what is has to do with it.
> 
> Then include this line in your Perl code:
> my $cmd = `R CMD BATCH yourscript.R`;
> 
> make the R script write the output to some other temporary files which
> are then read by Perl.
> Instead of working with temp files you could also use a database ....

I forgot to mention one pure-perl solution, Statistics-R:

http://search.cpan.org/~gmpassos/Statistics-R-0.02/

Works with Windows.  Quite a different interface than RSPerl, but does start
a persistent R interpreter.

Sean


> Sean Davis wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 12/13/05 2:20 PM, "madhurima_b at persistent.co.in"
>> <madhurima_b at persistent.co.in> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> Is R recognised as a proper command to run on dos?
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>>> From the RSPerl page--I have bad news:
>> http://www.omegahat.org/RSPerl/
>> 
>> "A (very) brief description of calling R from Perl. This only works on Unix.
>> (Only tested on Linux.) Do not expect this to run on Windows."
>> 
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