David/Jan: Although PostGIS and PL/R can be complimentary tools, I think a separate installer (for now at least) would make the most sense for PL/R. At least that way there is still the option for other users to install PL/R without PostGIS, and vice-versa.
At the same time, however, I can see how a including PL/R as an option in the PostGIS installer could be useful - particularly if a set of pre-defined functions were included with the setup that made use of PL/R for spatial statistical operations within PostGIS. But this might get a bit complicated, considering the requirements involved (e.g., having R installed, as well as packages installed in R - such as deldir for making voronoi polygons). Mike TECHER David wrote: > Hi Jan, > > Before I made a mistake, all you want is only a win32-installer for PL/R? > > because I think you know that's postgis win32-installer already exist? > > See http://www.postgis.org/download/windows/ > > --david; > > > Jan Hartmann a écrit : >> Hi folks (sorry for crossposting), >> >> Joe Conway just announced that PL/R will soon be available for >> Windows. See the thread starting at: >> >> http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/plr-general/2007-June/000235.html >> >> PL/R is an implementation of the statistical package R within >> PostgreSQL. See: >> >> http://www.joeconway.com/plr/ >> http://www.r-project.org >> >> It's installed the same way as postGIS, but until now only a Linux >> version was available. I have them both enabled on my server at SARA >> computing center, and the functionality is unbelievable. My own >> organisation, however, doesn't allow me to install Linux servers, and >> even if they did, neither staff nor students would be willing or even >> able to work with them. I guess this is not a unique situation, so >> this Windows port is really important. Moreover, a PostgreSQl >> implementation with full GIS and statistical functionality is >> something that doesn't exist in the commercial world as far as I know. >> An easy installable Windows version would IMO really be a showpiece >> for Open Source software. I would really appreciate if people in the >> know on both these lists would put their heads together to implement >> this. I don't really know much about Windows installers, but my >> feeling is that it is not enormously difficult. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jan Hartmann >> >> Dr. J. Hartmann >> Department of Geography >> University of Amsterdam >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >> > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail r�invente le mail ! D�couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son > interface r�volutionnaire. > http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
