[Maxima] a link either between Maxima and R (the statistical lang.) or between Maxima and MS Excel

[Richard Fateman]

Hassan Mohamed wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a link either between Maxima and R (the statistical lang.),
>  or between Maxima and MS Excel
> (through which maxima works as a server for excel vba)
Link to Excel is easy, in principle, if you use the right version of 
Maxima (with Allegro Common Lisp) though to get it all to work
would require some fiddling. See
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/ronenlisp.pdf