ANN: pyspread 0.0.8

[Colin J. Williams]

Martin Manns wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:25:11 -0400
> "Colin J. Williams" <cjw at ncf.ca> wrote:
>> I've copied your tutorial in my 
>> site-packages\pyspread directory
> 
> I wrote the tutorial in this thread as a step by step guide that
> can be followed manually. You do not need to put it anywhere on your
> hard drive. Start pyspread and type in the lines starting with "> "
> manually.
This was just for interim project 
documwntation
> 
>> When I try it (a) I can't open your test 
>> data and (b)I enter 1 in [0,0], 'abc' in 
>> [0,1], 'def' in [0,2] and 'ghi' in [1.2].
> 
> I assume that you tried to open the "test.pys" file. 
Yes, nothing was loaded.
This file is not
> needed for the tutorial. Type in as you did into the empty grid and it
> should work.
It did not.
> (Please tell me if it does not display 1 in [0,0], abc in [0,1], def in
> [0,2] and ghi in [1,2].)
> 
>> The first gives an unable to find rpy 
>> message and the second doesn't display.
> 
> The "test.pys" file is an example how to use the 3rd party package rpy
> for convenient plotting. Probably on your system, rpy is not installed.
> When you install rpy, do not forget to install the statistics package R
> that it depends on as well.
I suggest that such prerequisites go in 
the __doc__.
> 
> However, you do not have to use rpy for plotting. If you prefer other
> plotting packages (e.g. gnuplot), feel free to import them as displayed
> with the decimal built-in package. You can import (almost) everything
> that you can import in any Python program (though matplotlib made some
> trouble the last time I tried). 
> 
> (Hint: pyspread does *not* protect your system in any special way. So if
> you write a system command to delete all files and have sufficient
> rights to do this, the files will be deleted.)
> 
> Please let me know, which OS you are using (Unix/Linux, MacOS, Windows
> or something else).

Windows XP Pro
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Martin

I'll get rpy to try it again in a few days.

Colin W.