As a long-time R spatial developer and QGIS user I'll be glad to help out - but time-poor at work for now. "Helping out" may be more like "making unreasonable suggestions" and "finding annoying bugs".
For example, can we find a more efficient way to transfer data from QGIS to R? Can the new `sf` packages in R work with the data straight out of QGIS' memory? I *think* the `sf` package stores vector data in GDALs native C++ objects, and if QGIS is doing that too then we *might* be able to get access from QGIS and R if we write the R plugin as a C/C++ module that dynamically links with the shareable libR.so. The current R processing plugin converts QGIS layers to shapefiles, reads them into a new R process. On occasion I've hit problems with shapefile limitations (field name length, usually) that make my scripts fail. Maybe it should go via geopackage instead. Should it create `sp` objects on the R side or `sf` objects? This could be controllable in the R processing script headers, so it can be set on a per-script basis. I'll stop now... Barry On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Aurelio Pires <anvpi...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > Thanks, > > > On 2018-04-26 07:40, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Il 26/04/2018 05:08, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: > >> I'm VERY interested in seeing this resurrected. I'm available to > >> mentor this task if someone else wants to take ownership of the plugin > >> and do the port, OR alternatively I'd be happy for North Road to do > >> the porting ourselves and take over maintenance if someone can fund > >> this work. > > that's good news. So starting a crowdfunding campaign seems a good way > > to go, unless there is a bigger sponsor; do you agree? > > All the best, and thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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