Announce: RPy version 0.3.3

[Warnes, Gregory R]

RPy Version 0.3.3 is now available from the RPy home page at
http://rpy.sf.net.   

What is RPy?
--------------------

RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python (http://www.python.org) interface
to the R environment for statistical data analysis and graphics
(http://www.r-project.org).  RPy can manages translation between python and
R formats for all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions
(including the graphic functions).  All errors from the R language are
converted to proper Python exceptions.  All module installed on the R system
are available from Python.

Consequently, RPy allows Python programmers to easily add advanced
statistical functionality to Python programs.  It allows R programmers the
ability to use Python to control R computations and to interface them with
other systems.  Examples include RSOAP
(http://www.analytics.washington.edu/Zope/projects/RSOAP),  RSessionDA
(http://www.analytics.washington.edu/Zope/projects/RSOAP), and RStatServer
(http://www.analytics.washington.edu/Zope/projects/RStatServer).   These
products, which make heavy use of RPy have been used in a production
environments for two years.

New features in 0.3.3
-------------------------------

o Now works with R 1.8.X

o Windows version merged into the Unix source tree

o Added lcall() method for calling R functions using a list of (name,
  value) pairs for the parameters.  This is works around the python
  (mis-)feature of using unordered python dictionaries for named
  parameters, resulting in the loss of order for named parameters.

o All reported bugs have been fixed.

o New maintainer: Gregory R. Warnes <gregory_r_warnes@groton.pfizer.com>


For more information visit the RPy home page at http://rpy.sf.net, or the
RPy SourceForge project page at http://www.sf.net/projects/rpy.


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