[OSGeoLive] #2075: R modules sp and sf

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#2075: R modules sp and sf
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 Reporter:  darkblueb    |       Owner:  osgeolive@…
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive12.0
Component:  OSGeoLive    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  R            |
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Comment (by darkblueb):

 .. further investigations on the R rocker/geospatial docker world (23
 layers, 1.3GB)

 `sudo docker pull rocker/geospatial;`
 `sudo docker run -ti rocker/geospatial bash`

 It is a full linux in there, with /libs and /docs
 As is often the case with R, the docs are quite nice
 Specifically I found a part where they discuss native performance with
 gdal and GEOS.
 gdal provides a postgres connector, and it reads PostGIS directly
 and, WKT and WKB can be read, and the Shapefile driver.
 They claim near-native performance on all of those.. 20x of the previous
 rgdal or whatever

 no benchmarks yet..  the important item at **osgeolive** is installing
 `sf` with docs that are acceptable to the R team.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/ticket/2075#comment:1>
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