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

[Andrea Antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Andrea Antonello ha scritto:
> >>> 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, in an ancient project we considered using R, and since we
> could not stick with the GPL license, we thought to circumvent it
> using RServe (http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/).
> 
> Well, in the end we did not use R at all (we just needed kriging, so
> we used gstat instead) but I'm mention it because it's yet another
> way to interact with R.

Yes, we used to use Rserve in the old JGrass, but at that time it was
a bit tricky to get everything going and the server disconnected often
from the  client. I was searching for something more robust. BTW, I
will check the project again, perhaps they improved it.

Thanks,
Andrea


> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
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