Re: [udig-devel] to R or not to R

[Andrea Antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > Super interesting stuff.  Have you actually tried either of
> > these? How Statet integrates their R.  Do they have some JNI or
> > something?   
> 
> I'm not sure, on a first very quick review I couldn't understand it,
> I hoped that someone on the list had tried it :)
> The python interface looks very nice. I'm just not sure if it will
> work in jython, because I never gave a look at that. Will it wrap the
> installed pyhton and there fore have all the packages? Is it a
> straight implementation? I will have to give it a look :)

Alright, I gave it a quick look and it seams that jython is not the way
to get to R. Jython is a 100% java implementation of python and
not wrapped on top of it. I would like to cry... i thought I found an
easy way :)

The search goes on... an on...
Andrea


> 
> > Can you make use of their console somehow?  how does it compare to  
> > what you have?  Just curious.
> 
> No, I don't thinks so. Our goal is that to mix up some languages in
> order to interact "spatially" with each other. So for example I could
> create some raster maps throught grass or jgrass algorithms and then
> on the generated maps I would want to do some R analysis. Or inverse
> for example do a Kriging through R (ex. from a point layer in a
> database), which then writes a GRASS raster, and then access it with
> grass/jgrass commands. This forces us to stay inside our editor and
> console, in order to be able to follow the whole workflow.
> 
> Andrea
> 
> > 
> > Jesse
> > 
> > On Oct 11, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Andrea Antonello wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all, (and mostly Adrian, because we talked a bit about that in
> > > the past):
> > >
> > > How is the actual interest about R and Udig?
> > >
> > > I have a couple of collected thoughts about how R should fit into
> > > udig and connect direktly to maps and would like to know what you
> > > guys think.
> > >
> > > Python has a rpy package that fully supports r and also traps its
> > > errors. So that seems to be a great way to go through jython.
> > > You think
> > > that we could access to all this if we implement Jython support in
> > > the new JGrass console?
> > >
> > > Different way: the statet
> > > plugin? http://www.walware.de/it/statet/index.html
> > >
> > > Just thought,
> > > would be glad to hear comments.
> > >
> > > Ciao
> > > Andrea
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