Thanks for the reply!
I hope i'll bump into a project that can finance this!
As for a short term solution, maybe R could be suported through my Postgis
datastore wehere I have R -functions based on the PL/R language.
Is it possible to make a WPS process using the Postgis functions as backend
?
Martin
2010/12/16 Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Martin Jensen
> <martin.martinjen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am really thrilled by the potential of WPS in Geoserver.
> > I have been using R spatial (http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/) with
> > postgresql (http://bostongis.com/?content_name=postgresql_plr_tut01#87
> ) and
> > I think it would be great for the WPS roadmap to consider support for R
> > processes.
> > http://www.r-project.org/
> > Any thouhgts on support for R in Geoserver WPS?
>
> Oh yeah, having R support would be indeed very nice (as it would be to
> have GRASS support).
>
> Afaik there are two challenges to overcome.
> The first is technical, about the communication between a Java based
> process and R.
> I think there is something around but not sure what the maintainance status
>
> The second is resourcing: new developments happen when either there is
> something that needs it
> that can also code, or when someone shows up with funding geared
> towards a professional
> GeoServer supporter (see the commercial support page).
>
> As far as I know at the moment we don't have neither the first, nor the
> second,
> but we can hope that will happen sometimes soon in the future :-)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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