Ruby is best known as the language behind the rails web application framework. However, it is a very flexible general purpose language that can be used for tasks of direct interest to R Developers (parsing files, interacting with databases, processing XML or JSON, math functions, statistics, machine learning, etc).
If you do not have root access on a Linux server, you may still be able to install the ruby language and rubgems. Start by checking the version currently installed (if any):
user@lve [~]# which ruby /usr/bin/ruby user@lve [~]# ruby --version ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [x86_64-linux] user@lve [~]#
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