Re: Python Plugins

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:59:56PM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I thought that I'd write a generic least squares fit program.  I know that
> Gnumeric already has a linear best fit and a few others.  But what if I
> want to fit a sine function? (this happened to me not long ago).
>
> I want to fit to a user-defined function.  Allow the user to define the
> paramters that will be tunned, and compute a fit with error estimates and
> all.
This is not currently possible from a plugin.  Your best bet for now
is to add this directly to gnumeric in C.  The existence of multiple
fitting routines will probably help clarify the interface we'd use
to do it from a plugin.
 
> I am a mathematician (grad student).  I'm sure I can do the mathematical
> component without trouble.  However, I don't know how to integrate it with
> Gnumeric.
Drop by #gnumeric on irc.gnome.org and we can discuss it.