[kepler-dev] calling kepler from Open Office Calc

[Bertram Ludaescher]

Incidentally, for some uses it would also be interesting to use OO Calc (or
Excel) from within a workflow, i.e., for calculation, data manipulation (of
the good kind ;-),  and/or display purposes. So it could play a similar role
as R actors currently...

Not sure whether somebody also looked at this already..

Bertram

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Rick Moore <rem63 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Some of our scientists have asked us to investigate the possibility of
> calling Kepler workflows directly from Open Office Calc. The desire is to
> use Calc's builtin abilities to select columns for analysis/validation, run
> a workflow on those columns and display results/changes directly within the
> spreadsheet.
>
> I don't have a lot of experience with Kepler, but my gut feel is that we
> would have to run Kepler as a batch process from OO and transfer data
> between them via temp files. Has anyone investigated this before ? Or does
> anyone on the Kepler dev team have any insights as to how difficult it would
> be to do something that integrates the two apps more tightly ?
>
> Rick Moore
> Content Management Specialist
> Information Science
> Cornell University
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