Re: [Gnumed-devel] user contributed report

[Tim Churches]

Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:24:18AM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> 
>>> For that we'd have to add post-processing to query results
>>> and import an R binding. Which can be done but needs work to
>>> get done.
>> That's not too hard. I did this for my thesis. Just use rpy bindings and you 
>> can manipulate data all you want. Just have a script run the queries and 
>> work 
>> with the data. used it to calculate some statistics and plot the data with 
>> gnuplot.  

Surely if you transfer the query results to R you would plot the results
with R? It has much better statistical features than gnuplot.

I should also point out NetEpi analysis, which uses R via Rpy for these
things. Perhaps an automated GNUmed importer can be developed - we are
working on that for other data sources (currently you have to write an
import script by hand).

Tim C