On Dec 8, 2006, at 8:31 AM, janssen@ccr.jussieu.fr wrote:
Shouldn't these things made to work under (well may be not all but) most language settings? If I was fluent in Applescript I would certainly contribute (Perhaps Xmas time is just the right time to change my current knowledge iof 'languages').
In some sense this is really a shortcoming of AppleScript. No developer should possibly have to know what name a menu item shows to the user, really. Just supporting a couple more languages is not the answer, this is really something that AppleScript should be fixing, and it's not likely to happen I'm afraid.
In general, AppleScript is really a last resort. We really don't want to be using it to communicate with R, but we haven't found another simple and clear way to do that.
It is really very slow, and for simple math calculations I would really recommend the Ruby or the bc way. Btw did you try the Ruby command? If so, what were its shortcomings, that made it unsuitable for what you want to do?
JJ
Haris