[QGIS-Developer] R provider for QGIS 3 - any interest?

[Nyall Dawson]

On 23 April 2018 at 15:21, Howard Frederick <simbamangu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> QGIS 3 is pretty magical* but I miss the R provider! We have a bunch of R
> scripts for our flightplanning and mapmaking wildlife work that were super
> handy and will be sorely missed.
>
> I don’t have the Python skills to port the 2.18 plugin to 3.0 (yet!) but
> would be interested in (a) trying to get some crowdfunding going and (b)
> helping to coordinate an effort to get the R provider going again.
>
> … that is, IF there is enough interest! Please respond here or ping me
> privately and we’ll see how much of a community we have.

I'm VERY interested in seeing this resurrected. I'm available to
mentor this task if someone else wants to take ownership of the plugin
and do the port, OR alternatively I'd be happy for North Road to do
the porting ourselves and take over maintenance if someone can fund
this work.

Nyall

>
> Cheers -
>
> Howard Frederick
>
> Conservation biologist / Wildlife survey
> www.underdiverwaterman.com
>
>
>
> *HUGE thanks to everyone making this possible, not least of which to William
> Kyngesburye for making the Mac installers available.
>
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