Re: Feature Request: Vector math functions

FWIW, I concluded the same thing after a similar search the other night. I was planning to try to use shell functions to access R, but a PHP wrapper would be wonderful! Joe -----Original Message----- From: eschmid+sic@s.netic.de <eschmid+sic@s.netic.de> To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@php.net>; PHP <php@datavore.com> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net <php-general@lists.php.net> Date: Sunday, July 16, 2000 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Feature Request: Vector math functions >On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:05:40AM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> > Does the library have to be gnu open source? >> >> No, if is is GPL'ed it actually causes more problems for us. We need >> something that is BSD-licensed, public domain, or LGPL'ed. > >What problems? Does that mean PHP will disable MySQL support because it is >now GPL'ed. > >Besides the legal issues here I would recommend R. > >R, also known as "GNU S", is a language and environment for statistical >computing and graphics. R implements a dialect of the award-winning >language S, developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It >provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear >and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, >classification, clustering, ...). > >R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software >Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles >and runs out of the box on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and >similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux). It also compiles and runs >on Windows 9x/NT/2000 (for which it can also be obtained as pre-compiled >binary). > >Home: http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/ >R API: http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/doc/manuals/R-exts.pdf > >Would be a very good tool for data-mining. > >-Egon > >-- >New sig under construction. > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >