[RkWard-devel] [rkward - Open Discussion] RE: OpenOffice Integration

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By: tfry

Hi Leonard,

I do not have much time to consider this in detail right now, so I'll only be
pointing out a few things (hope I'm not sounding too negative in this short
form):

1) The RKWard description mentions "integration with office suites". This has
not really been addressed in any way so far. However, what I have in mind with
that personally is a) good ways to get data into RKWard, b) a nice way to get
the output into office suites, preferentially in a way that they remain editable
(right now, we simply output HTML).

2) I can't quite picture, how exactly R is to be integrated into the spreadsheet
in your concept. Sure, you could simply add R syntax into the cells. That might
well be helpful, but is far from a real GUI for R. What do you have in mind?

3) Did you look at RGnumeric, yet? Sure, it's the "wrong" office suite, and
it seems to be abandoned. However, it seems this project might be much closer
to what (I think) you have in mind than RKWard.

4) http://www.omegahat.org/RObjectTables/ may be a valueable concept in bridging
the data to R and back (maybe RGnumeric even uses this, I don't know).

5) RKWard code is under GPL, and depends on Qt (which pretty much forces the
licence).

6) I think the first objective of your project would be to write an R package
allowing to get and set data from an OOo spreadsheet (probably using RObjectTables,
and CORBA/D-Bus). This would be immediately useful in many different scenarios,
not just 2. Unfortunately, I don't think RKWard has much code that could be
reused for this purpose.

Maybe, it's easiest to take further discussion directly to the mailing-list
(rkward-devel at lists.sourceforge.net).

Regards
Thomas

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