[Qgis-developer] manageR roadmap

[John C. Tull]

Hi Carson,

This all sounds like excellent progress. After updating to rpy2.1.x, your latest version appears to be working for me on OS X and qgis trunk. I have not put it through the paces, but so far so good.

Thanks,
John

On May 19, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Carson Farmer wrote:

> This is a bit of a continuation from the thread entitled:
> [Qgis-developer] problems with SDA4PP plugin:
> 
> A bit of info on the direction I'm taking manageR:
> manageR is (in the longer term) designed to be an R leaning tool for
> GIS users, so the goal is really to have the user know they are using
> R upfront. Having said that, manageR does support (it's a bit clunky
> at the moment, but I'm getting there) plugins, so that if someone
> wants, they can create GUIs for R functions similar to those available
> via SDA4PP, but which still keeps the focus on 'seeing how R does it'.
> I'm going to be using managR to teach R to non-stats folks by allowing
> them to perform some common analyses with the GUI features, and then
> providing the means to export the actual R code to scripts which they
> can then use to automate tasks and learn how to use R effectively in
> their own research. Eventually I'll have GUIs for R functions for
> remote sensing, point pattern analysis, modeling, etc. Some GUIs are
> already available, and I'm slowly adding more and more each day
> (starting with spdep). In fact, if anyone in the QGIS community has
> some R functions that they regularly use that might be helpful to
> others, please don't hesitate to send them along, and I'll add them to
> the analysis menu of manageR. On that note, I'd also welcome input
> from users of manageR, as I've just released a new version with quite
> a few changes, and I'd like to hear how it is working on the various
> OS etc.
> Some new features include:
> 1) A package manager nearly identical to the one available in the OSX R GUI
> 2) Additional GUIs for some common R analysis functions (mostly
> spatial analysis)
> 3) A new workspace manager, very similar to the one available in the OSX R GUI
> 4) The option to use the R raster package for importing raster layers
> 5) Updated syntax highlighting and auto-completion features (command
> and bracket auto-complete)
> 6) Many bug fixes, and several speed-ups.
> 7) A few additional features to aid in script writing and export (as
> well as some improvement to editR, the R script editor which is part
> of manageR).
> 8) manageR can also now be run as a standalone application (though at
> the moment it still requires some of the files in the manageR plugin
> folder, so it has to be run from the folder with something like : $
> python manageR.py).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Carson
> 
> -- 
> Carson J. Q. Farmer
> ISSP Doctoral Fellow
> National Centre for Geocomputation
> National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
> http://www.carsonfarmer.com/
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