[csw-users] New Package?

[William M. Fennell]

Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> shuttlebox wrote:
>>     
>>> On 8/31/07, William M. Fennell <William.Fennell at channing.harvard.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is this the list to request somebody add a package to the blastwave
>>>> distribution?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I guess that's fine but there's also a package request web page:
>>>
>>> http://www.blastwave.org/pkgreq.php
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Thanks!  That's just what I needed.
>>     
>
>   
>> [what software, WHAT DOES IT DO, and where is the source code?]
>>     
>
>   
>> It is an open source version of the S language.
>> The latest source is here:
>> http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/src/base/R-2/R-2.5.1.tar.gz
>>     
>
> I'm very curious about this.  I was looking at building an open source
> implementation of Pascal after I get a few other things done and now I see
> this thing.  The "S" language?  Do we have a programming language for every
> letter of the alphabet now?  :-)
>
> The old motto was that if it can't be done with Fortran then it isn't worth
> doing.  A few years earlier we used to say "If it can't be done with
> assembly language then it can't be done at all."
>
> Guess I'm showing my age there.
>
> Dennis
>
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Hi,

This site is their FAQ.  http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html

Bill

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William M. Fennell, SCSA
Senior Unix System Administrator
Channing Laboratory