RCall release with substantially changed design planned - please test

[Douglas Bates]

I have been working on redesigning and documenting the RCall package.  The new version is now the "structures" branch in the github repository.  Documentation is available in the form of two IJulia notebooks in the doc directory.  The intro document is available as

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/JuliaStats/RCall.jl/blob/structures/doc/RCall.ipynb

A more detailed look at mapping functions from R's C API to Julia functions is available as

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/JuliaStats/RCall.jl/blob/structures/doc/MappingAPI.ipynb

I would appreciate comments, issues or pull requests over the next couple of days especially.  I plan to merge this branch into master and release a new version of the package Thursday afternoon (North American time).

This branch leverages the Julia type system and method dispatch to simplify many function calls.  I still find it astonishing that the interface can be written entirely in Julia.

To install this version before Thursday use

Pkg.add("RCall")

Pkg.checkout("RCall")

Pkg.checkout("RCall","structures")

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Looks pretty cool!

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[Mark Laubach]

Thanks very much for developing this package!  It will be very useful for my research.  I ran through all lines in your notebook and they all worked for me on an Ubuntu distro (LM 17.1).  I was able to save the R workspace.  This solves major issues for me, as the HDF5 package has not worked on my 64 bit Ubuntu-based system.  -Mark