[GRASS5] Re: grass5 digest, Vol 1 #987 - 5 msgs

[Michael Barton]

This is GREAT.

Michael Barton
	
On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 12:01 PM, grass5-request at grass.itc.it 
wrote:

> Cc: grass5 at grass.itc.it
>
> If there are no objections, I'd like to tackle this request tracker 
> issue (Markus' suggestion #1848,
> to merge r.average, r.median, and r.mode), as I've been thinking a 
> fair bit about these.
>
> Currently there is the GRASS/R interface for this kind of work, but 
> for some of the larger
> datasets I use, that's not very efficient.  There is also 
> r.statistics, but it only works on integers.
>
> I also have an "in-house" command (r.polystats), which evolved from 
> some grass4.1 (r.pinpoly)
> code that I inherited.  It calculates several other statistics as 
> well.  But it has lots of legacy
> "messy" code issues, so I'd like to take ideas from it rather than 
> large amounts of code.
>
> I'm thinking to package all of this functionality together into a 
> "new" r.statistics, starting with the
> mode median and average "engines" from the current up to date modules, 
> and adding in the
> other statistics as I get to them.
>
> Comments, suggestions etc welcome.
>
> Scott Mitchell
> smitch at mac.com
>
>
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