Hi Ricardo,
Having read on a previous post that the author of manageR is taking
feature requests, I'd like to leave a couple :)
Great!
1 - The possibility to import non ASCII characters into manageR. In my
opinion this would be a huge improvement for us non-native english
speakers. I know Carson is aware of this issue, but I can't resist
ringing it again ;)
This might be a bit tricky, as I can't seem to get non ascii characters
into R via Rpy. So it's not that manageR doesn't like the non ascii
characters, is that rpy doesn't seem to like them (but I'll keep looking
into this).
2 - It would be great if the R help would work under manageR. In fact
I am sure that the help function is the one I am using most often when
doing stuff in R and the one I miss the most in manageR.
This is something I'm working very hard on, but haven't yet found a way
to make this work nicely...
3 - I'd also like the ability to choose to dock manageR's window to
the main Qgis window.
Hmm, ok, this can be added, but then I don't think you'll be able to
minimise the manageR dialog in this mode?
4 - The introduction of some basic point-and-click features, such as
the ability to define R's working directory, a file selector for
loading a pre-saved Rscript, ... stuff like that
Coming very soon!
5 - As kind of a more futuristic (and unrealistic?) request, I think
it would be really cool if manageR could offer some analysis routines
with a friendlier interface. Maybe some dialogs for executing stuff
like kernel density plots, regression analysis, interpolation, ... the
whole shebang. this would make it kind of a gui for spatial analysis
with R.
This is what I'm currently focused on. I'm trying to come up with a
system that will automatically generate guis for functions in (some of)
the main spatial R packages
(http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html). I have guis for
spdep (mostly), and am working on spgwr and will likely do gstat next...
Other new developments:
Addition of a separate scripting tab. This will allow users to write and
test R scripts (using autocompletion and syntax highlighting) separately
from the console. From here users will be able to submit the selected
text to the console for running in R. You will also be able to save and
load R scripts.
Cheers,
Carson
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Carson J. Q. Farmer
ISSP Doctoral Fellow
National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG),
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.carsonfarmer.com/
http://www.ftools.ca/
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