[Zoo-discuss] R in ZOO

[Luca Delucchi]

On 16 October 2014 10:01, Nicolas Bozon <nicolas.bozon at geolabs.fr> wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>

Hi,

> There were some experiments achieved with R back in 2010.
> You can see a example service code in that  old email:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/zoo-discuss/2010-January/000193.html
> There are also more recent exemples in the MapMint services source code
> https://github.com/mapmint/mapmint/blob/master/mapmint-services/classifier/service.py
> So you can obviously use rpy2 for your Services to deal with R
>

yes you are right...

> If you mean writing ZOO Services using the R language directly, this could
> be very interesting but what benefits would you see to use such R support,
> instead of the rpy2 method ? Is this about functionality, or performance
> maybe ?

I don't know R, but some colleagues/friends ask me for this support
because they use R.

> Could you please give us a concrete example in which R support would be
> needed or better than using rpy2 ?
>

I have not now, but I'll ask to do some benchmark and if the results
will be not satisfying I let you know...

> Best,
>
> Nick
>

Thanks

-- 
ciao
Luca

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