[postgis-users] Combined Windows version of PostGIS/P-LR

[Jan Hartmann]

Hi folks (sorry for crossposting),

Joe Conway just announced that PL/R will soon be available for Windows. 
See the thread starting at:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/plr-general/2007-June/000235.html

PL/R is an implementation of the statistical package R within 
PostgreSQL. See:

http://www.joeconway.com/plr/
http://www.r-project.org

It's installed the same way as postGIS, but until now only a Linux 
version was available. I have them both enabled on my server at SARA 
computing center, and the functionality is unbelievable. My own 
organisation, however, doesn't allow me to install Linux servers, and 
even if they did, neither staff nor students would be willing or even 
able to work with them. I guess this is not a unique situation, so this 
Windows port is really important. Moreover, a PostgreSQl implementation 
with full GIS and statistical functionality is something that doesn't 
exist in the commercial world as far as I know. An easy installable 
Windows version would IMO really be a showpiece for Open Source 
software. I would really appreciate if people in the know on both these 
lists would put their heads together to implement this. I don't really 
know much about Windows installers, but my feeling is that it is not 
enormously difficult.

Regards,

Jan Hartmann

Dr. J. Hartmann
Department of Geography
University of Amsterdam