From rossini@blindglobe.net  Thu Nov  2 13:22:48 2000
From: rossini@blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini)
Date: 02 Nov 2000 05:22:48 -0800
Subject: [Rd] RSPerl...
Message-ID: <871ywufqzb.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net>


Duncan -
(but sent to R-devel, for any other thoughts?)

How do you envision RSPerl being used?  Without having seen the
details, I can think of playing with strings; is there a preferred
incantation for stringification of R objects (serialization)?

(actually, the main problem I'm having is that I know how I want to code
something like: 
     Robject <- .Perl("perlfunctionhackery", "stringifedRObjectToHack")
which might be something like:
     Robject <- eval(.Perl("perlfunctionhackery","stringifedRObjectToHack"))
but sort of what I'm having problems with thinking about is along the
lines of  
     Robject <- eval(.Perl("perlfunctionhackery",
                           RToString(InitialRObject)))

and my brain isn't kicking into gear).   While I know how to transfer
data as arrays, and the docs suggest I can transfer tables, and that's
fine, I'm wondering how to transfer and contort objects, and if the
above might be a reasonable general sketch, or if there might be
another approach?

best,
-tony

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[Rd] RSPerl...
A.J. Rossini