Re: [Gretl-devel] note on Rlib
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?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
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