On 26 April 2018 at 22:10, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > As a long-time R spatial developer and QGIS user I'll be glad to help out - > but time-poor at work for now. "Helping out" may be more like "making > unreasonable suggestions" and "finding annoying bugs".
Don't undersell yourself... these would be very valuable contributions! > For example, can we find a more efficient way to transfer data from QGIS to > R? Can the new `sf` packages in R work with the data straight out of QGIS' > memory? I *think* the `sf` package stores vector data in GDALs native C++ > objects, and if QGIS is doing that too then we *might* be able to get access > from QGIS and R if we write the R plugin as a C/C++ module that dynamically > links with the shareable libR.so. I've (very roughly) looked into this, and I also believe it should be possible to directly create R data frames from QGIS layers. Then we'd just need to add a "R console" to QGIS, and boom! Awesome spatial statistical analysis tool directly within QGIS! Nyall > > The current R processing plugin converts QGIS layers to shapefiles, reads > them into a new R process. On occasion I've hit problems with shapefile > limitations (field name length, usually) that make my scripts fail. Maybe it > should go via geopackage instead. > > Should it create `sp` objects on the R side or `sf` objects? This could be > controllable in the R processing script headers, so it can be set on a > per-script basis. > > I'll stop now... > > Barry > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Aurelio Pires <anvpi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> +1 >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> On 2018-04-26 07:40, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Il 26/04/2018 05:08, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: >> >> I'm VERY interested in seeing this resurrected. I'm available to >> >> mentor this task if someone else wants to take ownership of the plugin >> >> and do the port, OR alternatively I'd be happy for North Road to do >> >> the porting ourselves and take over maintenance if someone can fund >> >> this work. >> > that's good news. So starting a crowdfunding campaign seems a good way >> > to go, unless there is a bigger sponsor; do you agree? >> > All the best, and thanks. >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-Developer mailing list >> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer