[Rd] using Paraview "in-situ" with R?

[George Ostrouchov]

At ORNL, we worked with VisIt (a sibling of Paraview, both funded largely by DOE) around 2016 and made an in situ demo with R. We used packages pbdMPI (on CRAN) and pbdDMAT (on GitHub/RbigData), which were in part built for this purpose. Later also the package hola (on GitHub/RbigData) was built to connect with adios2, which can do buffered in situ connections with various codes.

But the VisIt developers were not interested in R (preferring to roll their own), so that direction fizzled. Paraview is a competetive sibling of VisIt, so I don’t know if they would be interested. The packages we developed are viable for that purpose. There is a lot in R that could benefit Paraview (or VisIt).

George

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> I had previously asked about R interfaces to various "other" visualization
> tools specifically lightweights for monitoring progress of
> various codes. I was working on this,
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> https://github.com/mmarchywka/mjmdatascope
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> but in the meantime found out that Paraview has an "in-situ"
> capability for similar objectives. 
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> https://discourse.paraview.org/t/does-or-can-paraview-support-streaming-input/13637/9
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> While R does have a lot of plotting features, 
> it seems like an excellent tool to interface to R allowing visualization without
> a bunch of temp files or 
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> Is anyone aware of anyone doing this interface or reasons its  a boondoggle?
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> Thanks. 
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>  Mike Marchywka 
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