pspp and R?

[Jeremy Gray]

Howdy!

PSPP sounds like a great idea, I look forward to seeing it realized. 
I'm wondering if you folks have considered using R 
(http://www.r-project.org/) as the statistical engine of PSPP, with 
PSPP providing an SPSS-style user interface? this could potentially 
speed up development of pspp, in terms of providing stats, and could 
make R a lot more user friendly for people used to SPSS  (e.g., most 
research psychologists). R has been adapted to be call-able from within 
perl, for example, so I am pretty sure that what I am suggesting is 
feasible (no idea how easy, of course). R is widely respected, and has 
a strong and active development base.

just an idea,

--Jeremy

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