Re: [R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-15 Thread Benjamin Weber
(OPeNDAP, SOS) or is easy to implement (ERDDAP). -Roy On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Benjamin Weber wrote: Dear R Users - R is a wonderful software package. CRAN provides a variety of tools to work on your data. But R is not apt to utilize all the public databases in an efficient manner

Re: [R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-14 Thread Benjamin Weber
their published paper in the public domain, downloadable from their web site, etc.      IMHO.      Spencer On 1/13/2012 3:39 PM, Benjamin Weber wrote: The whole issue is related to the mismatch of (1) the publisher of the data and (2) the user at the rendezvous point. Both the publisher

Re: [R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-14 Thread Benjamin Weber
/ We can write such tools because the service is either standardized (OPeNDAP, SOS) or is easy to implement (ERDDAP). -Roy On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Benjamin Weber wrote: Dear R Users - R is a wonderful software package. CRAN provides a variety of tools to work on your data

[R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-13 Thread Benjamin Weber
Dear R Users - R is a wonderful software package. CRAN provides a variety of tools to work on your data. But R is not apt to utilize all the public databases in an efficient manner. I observed the most tedious part with R is searching and downloading the data from public databases and putting it

Re: [R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-13 Thread Benjamin Weber
The whole issue is related to the mismatch of (1) the publisher of the data and (2) the user at the rendezvous point. Both the publisher and the user don't know anything about the rendezvous point. Both want to meet but don't meet in reality. The user wastes time to find the rendezvous point