[SoC] QGIS-R map project

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

>Okay that's a bit confusing. Those are the grass projects, on a trac,
>and the pycsw projects on a github -

every OSGeo project has its own place for their ideas;

the OSGeo-GSoC admin team collects all the project links and prepare it
then for
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Ideas

>do I need to ask the QGIS GSoC
>team (who are they?) where they are storing their GSoC ideas?

that would be the best.

some hints:

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2017-February/038980.html
https://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017


>I've mentored a couple of GSoC projects from R in the past, and have
>literally got the t-shirts.

that's fine.


Helmut



2017-02-01 18:48 GMT+01:00 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:

> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hkmyricaria at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear Barry,
> >
> > thank you very much for your ideas of a QGIS-R map project.
> >
> > just found this some time ago:
> >
> > RQGIS - integrating R with QGIS: https://github.com/jannes-m/RQGIS
> >
> > maybe something similar?
>
>  That is an interface to QGIS Processing, it doesn't do any graphics
> because it starts a new QGIS process on every function call - a few
> seconds startup is not a problem when you want to run a processing
> pipeline that takes a minute, but not good if you are trying to create
> an interactive map canvas.
>
> My idea is prototyped in a thing I call pqgisr, which uses an R
> package that embeds a python interpreter in R and then calls QGIS
> python API. Hence I can create a map canvas, add data, style it etc
> etc with python, but I have to block on a Qt loop to get an
> interactive UI, which the user has to choose to quit and get back to
> an R prompt, at which point the QGIS blocks.
>
> >>At this point do I just need to add a line to the Mentors table on the
> >>wiki page?
> >
> > please prepare a nice idea wiki page, joined with the QGIS team,
> (examples
> > e.g. https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2017 ,
> > https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/OSGeo-GSoC#2017, ...)  and send
> the
> > link to our GSoC admin team via gsoc-admin at osgeo.org.
>
> Okay that's a bit confusing. Those are the grass projects, on a trac,
> and the pycsw projects on a github - do I need to ask the QGIS GSoC
> team (who are they?) where they are storing their GSoC ideas? I'll try
> the QGIS-dev list,  I think there's been some action there I've
> missed...
>
> I've mentored a couple of GSoC projects from R in the past, and have
> literally got the t-shirts.
>
> > We will then put it on the
> > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Ideas.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Helmut
> >
>
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