Re: [ANN] Sci-1.0-beta1
- From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:01:33 -0700
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Stefano <phd.st.p@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19 September 2012 19:19, Simon Heath <icefoxen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Looks quite cool, though I only looked at it briefly.
>>
>> Based on my recent experience with numpy and scipy, I humbly suggest
>> you add functions to create interpolations and extrapolations, which I
>> couldn't find.
>
> Could you please expand on this point? You mean for the 1D case (vectors) ?
>
>>
>> And, is anyone aware of any good graphing libraries for Lua/LuaJIT?
>> That tends to be a pretty necessary companion for scientific computations...
>
> Well, that is for me the main motivation for the Rclient library. It
> would allow you to install R and use ggplot2 to produce plots, see
> http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/book/qplot.pdf for an introduction (sample
> chapter, it does much more).
>
> Rclient allows to exchange data back and forth between LuaJIT and an R
> server session and execute arbitrary R code.
> Yes, you would need R (which is GPL) and you would be able to produce
> just non-interactive plots (not even resizing) so mainly plot to
> files. But the Rclient library will be MIT licensed if this is a
> concern.
>
> I think that, for the short term at least, this is a good compromise.
>
There's a library for calling R from Lua? Tell me more, please!
BTW, GSL Shell is at http://www.nongnu.org/gsl-shell/
This whole Lua-Redis milieu is starting to get really interesting.
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