Executing S-Plus scripts

["Brian Richards" <brichards@Pharsight.com>]

I'm investigating running S-PLUS scripts through a seperate application. Currently we are using command line invocation of splus.exe to accomplish this. But there seems to be alot of overhead with starting the process running it and producing results. I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas on how I could speed the execution time up. We don't need direct access to splus functions via the application. Simply want to run a script and read output from disk. We're using .Net. I looked into sconnect but it seems to maybe be a deeper level of integration than we require at this time.

 

Optionally, if there is a way to start the engine and keep it running and then run scripts contiguously then shutdown the engine afterwards that would probably work too. In the future we'd like to be able to generate and read dataframes, within out .Net framework (managed code not just using the newest compiler to generate unmanaged code). I'm very green with S-Plus, and have looked through the archives but I could only find posts for compiling sconnect with VS .Net.

 

Thanks

 

Brian Richards