Doing the obvious and checking CPAN, there's Statistics::R and R::YapRI (have had people at $work use the former with some degree of success, just saw the other so YMMV . . .). I believe those however are more intended for letting you call into R from perl which sounds maybe the converse of what you're trying to do.

As far as your suggestion of turning the perl bits into a REST/web service that's probably as good a solution as any (and Mojolicious as good a framework as any). That'll let you make a clear break with a defined API and has the added benefit you then could have clients in ANY language call things (say let the python using heathens in on the fun too).

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In reply to Re: Calling perl systems from other systems, e.g. R by Fletch
in thread Calling perl systems from other systems, e.g. R by swl

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