Abstract #302366

This is the preliminary program for the 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Francisco, California. Currently included in this program is the "technical" program, schedule of invited, topic contributed, regular contributed and poster sessions; Continuing Education courses (August 2-5, 2003); and Committee and Business Meetings. This on-line program will be updated frequently to reflect the most current revisions.

To View the Program:
You may choose to view all activities of the program or just parts of it at any one time. All activities are arranged by date and time.

The views expressed here are those of the individual authors
and not necessarily those of the ASA or its board, officers, or staff.

Back to main JSM 2003 Program page
JSM 2003 Abstract #302366
Activity Number: 350
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Consulting
Abstract - #302366
Title: Connecting Scientific Software
Author(s): Duncan W. Temple*+
Companies: Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Address: 1205 Long Hill Rd., Stirling, NJ, 07980-1009,
Keywords:
Abstract:

Connecting statistical computing environments to other software is essential so that we can a) utilize software from other fields, and b) make statistical methodology easily accessible to others. I'll present some of the approaches we have pursued in the Omegahat project in connecting S to different programming languages and applications. These include general connections to, for example, Java, Perl, Python, SQL and Octave, GUI toolkits, databases, and spreadsheets, and to arbitrary COM applications such as Excel as both a client and a server. I'll describe the basic idea of the model underlying these bidirectional symmetric interfaces that allow users to transparently access functionality in the other system. And I'll mention a mechanism that can programmatically generate an interface to C/C++ code.

  • The address information is for the authors that have a + after their name.
  • Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.

Back to the full JSM 2003 program

JSM 2003 For information, contact meetings@amstat.org or phone (703) 684-1221. If you have questions about the Continuing Education program, please contact the Education Department.
Revised March 2003