[postgis-users] [GENERAL] PL/R - R procedural language handler for PostgreSQL

[Paul Ramsey]

Joe Conway wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've been working on a procedural language handler for PostgreSQL, that
> allows R to be used to write PostgreSQL functions.
> 
> R is similar to the commercial package S-Plus (for more on R see: 
> http://www.r-project.org/). Here is the first sentence of their intro:
>     "R is a language and environment for statistical computing and
>      graphics."
> 
> At this point, I think PL/R is ready for wider testing and use. If 
> anyone is interested in giving PL/R a try, the documentation and source 
> tarball can be found here:
> 
>    http://www.joeconway.com/plr/
> 
> PL/R has been developed against PostgreSQL 7.3.2 and 7.4devel, and R
> 1.6.2, on Red Hat 7.3 and 8.0 machines. You'll need a PostgreSQL source
> tree to compile and install PL/R. I'm sure that PL/R will *not* work
> with versions of PostgreSQL less than 7.3, but I'm not so sure WRT the
> minimum R version.
> 
> I'd appreciate any and all feedback.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe

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