I haven't used Sumo, but a (perhaps too) brief scan of the paper shows that this is a Tomcat servlet deployed as a zip file (a .war file). While I'm familiar with Tomcat, I hesitate to use it for GIS based on my experience with another Tomcat web map server, with its substantial memory footprint, lumbering response time and the elaborate ceremony involved with configuring a proliferation of XML files combined with programming in Java.
I could be mistaken and I'm opening myself to criticism--but if I am completely mistaken and I have to work with Tomcat, then I might lose motivation. ;) OpenCPU is implemented in R--a potential drawback, though I suspect that Tomcat is unlikely to be much more efficient. OpenCPU is deployed with Apache2; in Tomcat's case with the apache connector. Maybe Sumo would work with geoserver. If security is an issue, since you're deploying behind Apache, why not configure Apache with mod-security? I like the RESTful API of OpenCPU and that it can display ggplot2 graphics. In some sense, providing a web-enabled R GIS server with a RESTful API is the worst case, but if you have this then implementing a "geospatial indicator calculator" of any user-definable function of the GIS data layers looks feasible. (This would be done within a sandbox to contain attempts to subvert the system through the calculator) Anyway, for geospatial calculations R is unbeatable. It lacks an interactive web front end. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Ebrahim Jahanshiri <e.jahansh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thank you Florian, > The OpenCPU is very good. But I think I am not that much advanced in > programming to do these things. I think it is the ultimate think for use to > be able to do all our analysis online. > > Just wanted to check with you. have you used Sumo Sumo (An Authenticating > Web > Application with an Embedded R Session)? > for online R sessions? > the link is here: > > http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2012-1/RJournal_2012-1_Bergsma+Smith.pdf > > TQ > Ebrahim > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Florian Lengyel < > florian.leng...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm going to venture a suggestion--I'm interpreting your question to >> mean that you would like web-enabled maps, and not a desktop application. >> If you meant a desktop application, then I'm responding the question >> I would have liked someone else to ask (and that I would like someone >> else to solve--so I might as well attempt to work on it.) >> >> Perhaps OpenCPU (http://opencpu.org) would be suitable as a >> web platform, in conjunction with a javascript library such as Leaflet. >> Integrating the two would involve using the REST service supplied >> by OpenCPU, possibly modifying it to return GeoJSON. It might have to >> be combined with a javascript library such as jQuery (for additional >> controls, >> and URI calls). >> >> It's possible you could use CartoDB for map layers, in conjunction with >> leaflet, >> and use OpenCPU as the REST service to provide access to the multiple >> regressions. This could mean duplicating your data: it is possible that >> the same layers you maintain in CartoDB would have to be accessible to R >> otherwise. >> However, if you want your own installation of CartoDB instead of the >> commercial >> service, this is what you're up against: >> >> https://plus.google.com/u/0/111972627358501525662/posts/Z6kNdt5QV93 >> >> Perhaps someone will set me straight and convince me these are terrible >> ideas, >> if they even rise to that level. >> >> FL >> >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Ebrahim Jahanshiri < >> e.jahansh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I am trying to create a map that is click-able i.e. like most GIS >>> platforms >>> that let the user click on the points or entities and for example see >>> their >>> attributes. I want to do this within R since I need R to do the analysis >>> (multiple regression) and show the results of regression along with other >>> attributes for each entity on a base map by a click of user on a map >>> overlay (simple GIS work). >>> >>> I can not use anything based on Google maps (like GoogleVis and KML >>> exportation and so on) since my data is using different projection and >>> transforming them into WGS84 creates overlay miss-positions on Google >>> Earth/Maps. So I need to first load up my area polygon and then overlay >>> the >>> points on top of them and as I mentioned I need it to be click-able. >>> >>> So far I couldn't find a way to do this totally within R. I am aware that >>> by linking R to other GIS software (like GRASS GIS for example) it is >>> possible to do this but my priority is R since it will be easier for me >>> to >>> work with and also I have no experience with GRASS or other open-source >>> software. Moreover it will be good to find out if there is any capability >>> already implemented in R. >>> >>> I appreciate any clue that you might have for me, >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Ebrahim Jahanshiri >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-sig-Geo mailing list >>> R-sig-Geo@r-project.org >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo >>> >> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
