There's a Statistics::R perl module which seems to work though I'm not sure if it's still being maintained. Cxx > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 12:07:52 +0000 > From: Adaikalavan Ramasamy <ramasamy@cancer.org.uk> > Subject: Re: [BioC] can R be invoked from another program > To: Sucheta Tripathy <sutripa@vbi.vt.edu> > Cc: BioConductor mailing list <bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch> > Message-ID: <1099742762.6807.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> > Content-Type: text/plain > > This question is more suitable for R-help mailing list, but in essence > yes. However it is relatively easier to call R from some programmes than > other programmes. > > See http://www.omegahat.org/. For web server examples, see > http://franklin.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu/R.web.servers/ > > I usually simply make a system call to an R script. Example in perl > system("R --no-save < script.R arg1 arg2"). See help(BATCH) and > help("commandArgs"). > > > > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 02:14, Sucheta Tripathy wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am Just curious, if R can be invoked from other programs or embedded in > > another program. > > > > This may be useful if we want to pipeline processes. > > > > Many thanks > > > > Sucheta > >