Hi Adrian, will you be able to attend the IRC today? We could just exchange two words about R and what we want to do with it.
Ciao Andrea Adrian Custer probaly wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:27 +0100, Andrea Aime wrote: >> Adrian Custer ha scritto: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I'm trying to design a flexible approach to build R spatial objects. >>> Right now I'm working through JRI, trying to build a >>> SpatialPointsDataFrame in R. Neither JRI nor Rserve seem capable right >>> now of doing this out of the box, but regardless we will have to do a >>> bit of work mapping the Attribute[] array of Gt Features to a flat >>> table. >>> >>> I gather there are different efforts working to connect udig and R, >>> either via Rserver or JRI. I believe the CGIAR potato center folk and >>> maybe axios are involved. Can any of you point me to code which builds R >>> objects? I looked on the community space and didn't find the right >>> plugins to examine. >> It would be nice it this connection could a gt2 datastore. >> What about Geoserver serving data directly out of R? :-) >> Cheers >> Andrea >> _______________________________________________ >> User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) >> http://udig.refractions.net >> http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > > Baby steps first, eh? A datastore is the obvious end goal but it's not > clear yet how to get there. > > For now, there is too much in flux to aim for a universal datastore. You > all know about the GtFeature state but things are also evolving in R and > in the connection libararies. In particular: > There is an experimental R effort to use a database for storage > and sharing that database may be a better strategy for the long > term. > > JRI and Rserve are not mature yet so there is lots of missing > functionality which I am trying to understand how to work around > or implement > > R is switching over to user real classes. It's not clear yet how > we build those classes from Java. > > The spatial library is only getting started. For now it uses a > SimpleFeature like model but it's not clear how that will > evolve. > > so let's not get greedy from the get go ;-) > > --adrian > _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
