thiagobrandam wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have to do some statistics calculations (normal distribution, etc)
> in Ruby and I don't seem to find much of it in the language itself.
> Would be the R statistics package the best solution so far?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>   
Hi,
apart from a large statistic system like R, the GSL-bindings 
(http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org) for Ruby provide an interface for rather 
simple statistical analysis, histograms, gaussian fits and plots. Have a 
look at:

http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/stats.html
http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/hist.html#8.3
http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/vector.html


regards
ralf