[GRASSLIST:5120] Re: [GRASS5] modules

[Michael Barton]

I second this as a great idea. Of course it needs a volunteer to develop
this.

Michael


On 12/8/04 11:58 PM, "Paolo Cavallini" <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

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> Hi all.
> This mine may be a stupid question-in case, please forgive me.
> R has a very nice mechanism with which the program itself
> downloads a required addon from the cran repository, compile it, and
> installs. The user then is not required to recompile the main program every
> time (s)he has to use a non-standard module, and does not depend on packagers
> (who may not be interested in packaging a rarely used modult). This makes R a
> very open environment, and as a result the number of addons increases
> constantly.
> Would it be feasible to implement such a mechanism in grass, perhaps using
> code from R?
> All the best.
> pc
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