Re: [Gretl-devel] note on Rlib

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >>>>> (b) are there portability problems? >> >> Again inspired from Python Zen ("Explicit is better than implicit."), >> what about using some kind of "include" statement at the top of a gretl >> script if it uses libR? That way the dependency is not buried and hidden >> and the script wouldn't fail half-way through but would refuse to run >> right from the start if R isn't present. > > This is an _excellent_ idea. Even better than an "include", we may use > our "set" command. Something like > > set R_support [on|off] > > with "off" as the default. What do you guys think? Yes, this is probably a good idea. I think it's clear that we need to take some time to get this right. I propose to leave Rlib interaction as a "hidden", experts-only, thing in 1.8.2 (and I won't yet attempt to add it to the Windows build). We can figure out the details for 1.8.3.