[Rcpp-devel] C++ code for ordinary differential equations

[Douglas Bates]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Christian Gunning <xian at unm.edu> wrote:
>> Tst tst tst: You're loosing your Debian/Ubuntu instincts:
>>
>> edd at max:~$ wajig search sundials
>> libsundials-cvode1 - ordinary differentialequation solver (SUNDIALS library)
> ...
>> edd at max:~$
>>
>> Bingo, another Rcpp project in the making :)
>
> Now wait just a sec -- with the powers of apt-cache search, I wandered
> over here, which looks an *awful* lot like what you're asking for:
> http://www.gnu.org/s/gsl/manual/html_node/Ordinary-Differential-Equations.html
>
> Off-topic p.s. -- This deserves a token nomination to fortune(), in
> memorium of Stallman's visit to useR 2010:
>
> "As I understand it, the Free Software Foundation switched the license
> on gcc to GPL 3 or later for the 4.2.2 version of gcc and Apple
> decided not to adopt it.  (One imagines that discussions between
> Richard Stallman and Steve Jobs, if there were any, would have been
> interesting to observe.)  I'm not sure what the best way out is and,
> fortunately, I'm not working on a Mac."

I'm not sure that that is the story - I am just repeating what I read
elsewhere.  I didn't do any fact checking.

And, given that it was posted on the day that Steve Job's death was
announced, it's bad timing.