Thanks for adding more explanation. As Ivan Krylov mentioned earlier, this 
sounds like an idea for developing an R package. The viewers and R largely 
operate in communities that so far have little interaction and both can benefit 
from ideas in the other. 

George

> On Jan 11, 2024, at 6:30 AM, Mike Marchywka <marchy...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks. I take it though you see "R" in this role as adding to the 
> capabilities of 
> the viewers, maybe adding some quick model fits over FEM results or something?
> Right now I was imagining working with freefem and rolling my own c++ code
> with supporting use of R code. Ideally I could easily overlay stuff without
> messing around with temp files.  There are a lot of R things, probably
> optimizations etc, that may be nice to view as they progress
> with more than just a figure of merit. 
> Right now I'm just trying to use Runge-Kutta on a simple orbit 
> and the mjmdatascope output is much more useful on-the-fly 
> than text or after the fact.
> 
> 
>  Mike Marchywka 
> 44 Crosscreek Trail
> Jasper GA 30143
> was 306 Charles Cox Drive  Canton, GA 30115
> 470-758-0799
> 404-788-1216 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: George Ostrouchov <george...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 3:06 PM
> To: r-devel@r-project.org
> Cc: Mike Marchywka
> Subject: Re:  [Rd] using Paraview "in-situ" with R?
> 
> At ORNL, we worked with VisIt (a sibling of Paraview, both funded largely by 
> DOE) around 2016 and made an in situ demo with R. We used packages pbdMPI (on 
> CRAN) and pbdDMAT (on GitHub/RbigData), which were in part built for this 
> purpose. Later also the package hola (on GitHub/RbigData) was built to 
> connect with adios2, which can do buffered in situ connections with various 
> codes.
> 
> But the VisIt developers were not interested in R (preferring to roll their 
> own), so that direction fizzled. Paraview is a competetive sibling of VisIt, 
> so I don’t know if they would be interested. The packages we developed are 
> viable for that purpose. There is a lot in R that could benefit Paraview (or 
> VisIt).
> 
> George
> 
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 14:20:17 +0000
>> From: Mike Marchywka <marchy...@hotmail.com>
>> To: R-devel <r-devel@r-project.org>
>> Subject: [Rd] using Paraview "in-situ" with R?
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>> I had previously asked about R interfaces to various "other" visualization
>> tools specifically lightweights for monitoring progress of
>> various codes. I was working on this,
>> 
>> https://github.com/mmarchywka/mjmdatascope
>> 
>> but in the meantime found out that Paraview has an "in-situ"
>> capability for similar objectives.
>> 
>> https://discourse.paraview.org/t/does-or-can-paraview-support-streaming-input/13637/9
>> 
>> While R does have a lot of plotting features,
>> it seems like an excellent tool to interface to R allowing visualization 
>> without
>> a bunch of temp files or
>> 
>> Is anyone aware of anyone doing this interface or reasons its  a boondoggle?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Marchywka
>> 44 Crosscreek Trail
>> Jasper GA 30143
>> was 306 Charles Cox Drive  Canton, GA 30115
>> 470-758-0799
>> 404-788-1216
>> 
> 

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