[R] R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization

Wed Nov 17 17:12:36 CET 2004

James.Callahan at CityofOrlando.net wrote:

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>>SourceForge.net will consider the inclusion of a programming
>>language within the Trove system when we host at least 5
>>projects based on that language.  Please advise: Do you know
>>of 5 projects hosted on SourceForge.net based on this language?
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>Gretl, RPad and RMetrics, plus Ernesto's FLR and  fsap make five. 
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Then you can also add nlmeODE:

http://nlmeode.sourceforge.net/

>Gretl           Allin Cottrell, USA
>Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library
>Gretl is hosted on SourceForge.
>http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
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>Gretl is not written in R, but interfaces to  R.
>http://gretl.sourceforge.net/gretl_and_R.html
>"gretl ... is designed as a very user-friendly econometrics package. While 
>it is also reasonably sophisticated, it lacks some of the specialized 
>statistical methods that a working econometrician might desire.As a way 
>around this limitation, gretl offers an interface to the comprehensive 
>free-software statistical package, GNU R."
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>Both RPAd and RMetrics are open-source projects using (and acknowledging 
>using) R.
>As far as I know, neither is listed on SourceForge.
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>RPad            EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), USA
>http://www.Rpad.org/Rpad/ 
>"Rpad is an interactive, web-based analysis program. Rpad pages are 
>interactive workbook-type sheets based on R, an open-source implementation 
>of the S language. Rpad is an analysis package, a web-page designer, and a 
>gui designer all wrapped in one. Rpad makes it easy to develop powerful 
>data analysis applications that can be shared with others (most likely on 
>an intranet). The user doesn't have to install anything--everything's done 
>through a browser."
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>RMetrics        Diethelm Wuertz, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
>http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/econophysics/R/
>"Rmetrics is the premier open source solution for financial market 
>analysis and valuation of financial instruments. With hundreds of 
>functions build on modern and powerful methods Rmetrics combines 
>explorative data analysis and statistical modeling with object oriented 
>rapid prototyping. Rmetrics is embedded in R,"
>My impression is that many projects "on SourceForge" have links to home 
>pages hosted on other sites -- so I suppose
>if the project authors are willing -- they could be cross listed on 
>SourceForge.
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>Gretl, RPad and RMetrics, plus Ernesto's FLR and  fsap make five.
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>On the other hand, SourceForge's criteria for inclusion appears to be very 
>arbitrary.
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>Objective criteria that would be more relevant to R include:
>- R has several active mailing lists (archived for verification)
>- The R Project is archived on CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network) 
>which has more than 20 mirrors on 6 continents:
>Africa
>Asia
>Australia
>Europe
>North America
>South America
>- More than a dozen books have been published with either "R" or "S" 
>mentioned in the title ("R" is an open-source  implementation of "S"). For 
>example, "Introductory Statistics with R" is available from major 
>booksellers including Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and even 
>Wal-mart.com!
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>Subjective criteria for inclusion on SourceForge
>- "R" is an implementation of "S" a language developed at Bell Labs -- the 
>organization that developed the C programming language and the Unix 
>operating system. Open source implementations of C include the GNU 
>Complier Collection (GCC) and open source implementations of Unix include 
>GNU Linux. So why not include, the open source implementation of S, GNU R?
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>- R is respected in the statistical community. There are awards and 
>articles that could be cited. A personal story -- in the early 1990s I 
>attended an American Statistical Association meeting in San Francisco. I 
>saw then that the topnotch statisticians, people like Frank Harrell -- 
>whose short course on Regression I attended, were maxing out SAS and 
>switching to S. I heard about StatLib at Carnegie Mellon and contributed 
>code. At the time, the institution I was working for was committed to SAS 
>and SPSS and would not have been open to spending more on S. But, years 
>latter I was delighted to learn that there was an open source 
>implementation S, R and that it was available at StatLib, which now is a 
>mirror for the worldwide CRAN mirror sites.
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>On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:09, Witold Eryk Wolski wrote:
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>>Hi R-Users and Developers,
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>>Several months ago I made a request on Sourceforge to add the R/S - 
>>programming language to the _Trove_ categorization. ("The Trove is a 
>>means to convey basic metainformation about your project.")
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>>Today I got the following response of one of the sourceforge admins.
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>>SourceForge.net will consider the inclusion of a programming
>>language within the Trove system when we host at least 5
>>projects based on that language.  Please advise: Do you know
>>of 5 projects hosted on SourceForge.net based on this language?
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>>If anyone of you knew about R-packages, or projects using the R/S 
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>programming language, which are hosted on sourceforge, please reply to 
>this thread. I hope that your answers will enable me to give more then 5 
>examples of R projects hosted on Sourceforge.
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>>Yours Eryk
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>Jim Callahan
>Management, Budget & Accounting
>City of Orlando
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