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From: | YuHong |
Subject: | Re: R Mathlib |
Date: | Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:28:04 -0700 |
Hello,
May I ask, since R is also an open-source application, in addition to
include R’s components, can we also reference R’s internal algorithms when
coding for octave and octave-forge ? Thanks.
Best regards,
Hong Yu
While working on binopdf I noticed that
there is a useful collection of special functions in: /* * Mathlib : A C Library of Special Functions * Copyright (C) 1998-2011 The R Development Core Team * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, a copy is available at * http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/ */ ============================================ Would it make sense to consider adopting this whole set into Octave in a way that would make updates fairly automatic? I know for sure that at least the probability and statistics functions in this library are very good and actively maintained by the R group. I do not think that there are any copyright issues, but there could be compatibility and other items to consider. The R view of compatibility with Matlab is quite different from the Octave's. If this were done, an accurate and fast binopdf would be "automatic." Roughly, binopdf would just call the C dbinom function. Comments? Michael |
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