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

[Mike Leahy]

David/Jan:

Although PostGIS and PL/R can be complimentary tools, I think a separate
installer (for now at least) would make the most sense for PL/R.  At
least that way there is still the option for other users to install PL/R
without PostGIS, and vice-versa.

At the same time, however, I can see how a including PL/R as an option
in the PostGIS installer could be useful - particularly if a set of
pre-defined functions were included with the setup that made use of PL/R
for spatial statistical operations within PostGIS. But this might get a
bit complicated, considering the requirements involved (e.g., having R
installed, as well as packages installed in R - such as deldir for
making voronoi polygons).

Mike

TECHER David wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Before I made a mistake, all you want is only a win32-installer for PL/R?
> 
> because I think you know that's postgis win32-installer already exist?
> 
> See http://www.postgis.org/download/windows/
> 
> --david;
> 
> 
> Jan Hartmann a écrit :
>> 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
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