Re: [GRASS-dev] R and GRASS integration

2016-01-07 Thread Paulo van Breugel
On 06-01-16 18:24, Rainer M Krug wrote: Paulo van Breugel writes: On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Paulo van Breugel writes: > I by any stretch of imagination a developer, but I did use

Re: [GRASS-dev] R and GRASS integration

2016-01-06 Thread Rainer M Krug
Paulo van Breugel writes: > I by any stretch of imagination a developer, but I did use the > combination of shell or pythons script with R, basically following the > approach you described, having a python or shell script write a R > script to a text file and run it. I

Re: [GRASS-dev] R and GRASS integration

2016-01-06 Thread Paulo van Breugel
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Paulo van Breugel writes: > > > I by any stretch of imagination a developer, but I did use the > > combination of shell or pythons script with R, basically following the > > approach you described,

Re: [GRASS-dev] R and GRASS integration

2016-01-06 Thread Rainer M Krug
Paulo van Breugel writes: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Rainer M Krug > wrote: > > Paulo van Breugel writes: > > > I by any stretch of imagination a developer, but I did use the > > combination of shell or

Re: [GRASS-dev] R and GRASS integration

2016-01-05 Thread Paulo van Breugel
I by any stretch of imagination a developer, but I did use the combination of shell or pythons script with R, basically following the approach you described, having a python or shell script write a R script to a text file and run it. I think it can work well, and not that much harder to

Re: [GRASS-dev] R and GRASS integration

2016-01-04 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 04/01/16 10:28, Moritz Lennert wrote: On 03/01/16 23:54, Steven Pawley wrote: Like many R-GRASS users, I have a collection of R scripts that interact with GRASS to perform various workflows. I have debated about converting these to Python using Rpy2, although this package can be a difficult

Re: [GRASS-dev] R and GRASS integration

2016-01-04 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 03/01/16 23:54, Steven Pawley wrote: Like many R-GRASS users, I have a collection of R scripts that interact with GRASS to perform various workflows. I have debated about converting these to Python using Rpy2, although this package can be a difficult to install on all platforms and depends on

Re: [GRASS-dev] R and GRASS integration

2016-01-04 Thread Steven Pawley
Thank you Moritz, Yes I have also had difficulties with Rpy2 apart from on Linux. Also, Rpy2 is quite onerous in terms of effort required to integrate R scripts into Python. Your solution certainly works, but as you mentioned it makes the R script harder to maintain. PypeR is another

[GRASS-dev] R and GRASS integration

2016-01-03 Thread Steven Pawley
Dear GRASS developers, I'm wondering what represents the most desirable approach to integrate R scripts into GRASS so that they are part of the FOSS community. It seems like the integration with R represents a fairly important component of GRASS, which relies on R for many geostatistical