[GRASSLIST:688] Re: [GRASS5] Re: Re: running r.topmodel

[Michael Barton]

I also saw Roger's comments on the details. But I wanted to voice my support
for the overall idea.

Michael
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> From: Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>
> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:59:47 +0200
> To: <grasslist at baylor.edu>
> Subject: [GRASSLIST:653] Re: [GRASS5] Re: Re: running r.topmodel
> 
> A few basic things, I would think, none of them too hard:
> 
> 1. Implement decent attribute management GUI for vector data via a
> tcl/tk table widget incl. SQL queries, data sorting and filtering, just
> like e.g. ArcMap does
> 
> 2. Ship GRASS with a version of R and all relevant spatial packages
> included so the user does not need to worry about installing R in
> addition to GRASS.
> 
> 3. Make a simple wrapper function available to C and shell programmers
> to pipe data back and forth between GRASS and the included R system and
> call R functions to work on that data.
> 
> 4. Provide some GRASS modules as front-ends (wrappers) to most popular
> used R functionality (e.g. multivariate statistics, kriging)
> Results from the R calls should be saved in attributes of GRASS vector
> maps or as GRASS raster maps.
> 
> 5. For power users: provide an R console
> 
> Benjamin