On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Christof Janssen wrote:
May be, I need to trash R entirely, which I thought I had. Or is there an alternative way to go (without R). Which bundle should I look up if I wanted to write my own bundle for doing very simple math (I don't know anything about ruby etc)?
You don't need to know anything about Ruby, in fact the command I mentioned in the previous email computes 1/1e-1 just fine. All you have to do is look up the names of the standard commands in that ruby help page I linked to, so that you know what to call, i.e. that log() is for logarithms log10() for base 10 logarithms etc. If you give us a list of the kind of simple math you want to do, and how ideally you would like to type them in, we can offer a better suggestion I think (though I am fairly certain that the ruby command as it stands will already cover most if not all of them).
JJ
Haris