Re: [Swarm-Support] development priorities (was Re: Membership inSwarm Developmen Group)

[Paul Johnson]

glen e. p. ropella wrote:
> Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
>   
> > It's a simple matter to control foreign code from R.  Of the hundreds of
> > contributed packages for R, many of them physically include compiled C++
> > and Fortran.
> >     
>
> It's a simple matter?  So, if I polled the community, how many of them
> do you think could do it?  If it's simple, then the majority of them
> could do it, correct?
>
>   
Actually, the instructions and manuals for making R modules are clear 
enough and the design is rigorous enough that anybody who tries hard can 
do it. 

It would not be as hard as writing a working swarmapp, for example.

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