[Gretl-devel] trading bundles with R

Folks, it occurred to me that our way of communicating with R (and potentially other packages, but let's focus on R for the moment) could be much improved if we had R functions for reading/writing bundles as R lists. I started experimenting a little with the "XML" R package. For example: <hansl> bundle a = null a.n = 512 bwrite(a, "a.xml") <hansl> and then do <R> library(XML); a <- xmlParse("a.xml"); b <- xmlToList(a); c <- b[1]$`bundled-item`$text n <- as.numeric(c); print(n); </R> and this is quite cool. Of course this would have to be properly generalised/extended on the R side. I suppose that for someone who's fluent in R it shouldn't be too much work. Is anybody willing to help with this? ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------